"capitalist" meaning in English

See capitalist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-capitalist.wav Forms: more capitalist [comparative], most capitalist [superlative]
Etymology: From French capitaliste; equivalent to capital + -ist. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kap-}}, {{root|en|ine-pro|*kap-|id1=head}}, {{bor|en|fr|capitaliste}} French capitaliste, {{af|en|capital|-ist}} capital + -ist, {{inh|en|ine-pro|*káput||head}} Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*kap-}} Proto-Indo-European *kap- Head templates: {{en-adj}} capitalist (comparative more capitalist, superlative most capitalist)
  1. Of, or pertaining to, capitalism.
    Sense id: en-capitalist-en-adj-OjdnlxwW Categories (other): English terms with collocations
  2. Supporting or endorsing capitalism. Translations (supporting or endorsing capitalism): կապիտալիստական (kapitalistakan) (Armenian), капіталісты́чны (kapitalistýčny) (Belarusian), capitalista (Catalan), kapitalistický (Czech), kapitalistisk (Danish), kapitalistisch (Dutch), kapitalisma (Esperanto), kapitalistinen (Finnish), porvarillinen (Finnish), capitaliste (French), kapitalistisch (German), καπιταλιστής (kapitalistís) [masculine] (Greek), καπιταλίστρια (kapitalístria) [feminine] (Greek), पूंजीपति (pūñjīpti) [masculine] (Hindi), kapitalisticeskoi (Ingrian), rachmasaíoch (Irish), caipitlíoch (Irish), capitalistico (Italian), capitalista (Italian), капиталистички (kapitalistički) [masculine] (Macedonian), bun-argidagh (Manx), angahaorawa (Maori), भांडवलशाही (bhāṇḍvalśāhī) (Marathi), kapitalistisk (Norwegian Bokmål), kapitalistisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), kapitalistyczny (Polish), capitalista (Portuguese), capitalist (Romanian), капиталисти́ческий (kapitalistíčeskij) (Russian), calpach (Scottish Gaelic), capitalista (Spanish), kapitalistisk (Swedish), kapitalist (Turkish), капіталісти́чний (kapitalistýčnyj) (Ukrainian), سرمایہ دار (sarmāya dār) [masculine] (Urdu), سرمایہ دارنی (sarmāya dārnī) [feminine] (Urdu), katädimik (Volapük), קאַפּיטאַליסטיש (kapitalistish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-capitalist-en-adj--RXg-cKu Disambiguation of 'supporting or endorsing capitalism': 4 96 0
  3. (nonstandard) American. Tags: nonstandard
    Sense id: en-capitalist-en-adj-P1YBUxqO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: capitalistic

Noun

IPA: /ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-capitalist.wav Forms: capitalists [plural]
Etymology: From French capitaliste; equivalent to capital + -ist. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kap-}}, {{root|en|ine-pro|*kap-|id1=head}}, {{bor|en|fr|capitaliste}} French capitaliste, {{af|en|capital|-ist}} capital + -ist, {{inh|en|ine-pro|*káput||head}} Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*kap-}} Proto-Indo-European *kap- Head templates: {{en-noun}} capitalist (plural capitalists)
  1. The owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person. Translations (owner of capital): sərmayəçi (Azerbaijani), 資本家 (Chinese Mandarin), 资本家 (zīběnjiā) (Chinese Mandarin), kapitalista [masculine] (Czech), kapitalist [common-gender] (Danish), kapitalist [masculine] (Dutch), kapitalisti (Finnish), Kapitalist [masculine] (German), Kapitalistin [feminine] (German), पूंजीपति (pūñjīpti) [masculine] (Hindi), kaum modal (Indonesian), rachmasaí [masculine] (Irish), caipitlí [masculine] (Irish), 資本家 (shihonka) (alt: しほんか) (Japanese), капиталшы (kapitalşy) (Kazakh), 자본가 (jabon'ga) (alt: 資本家) (Korean), капитали́ст (kapitalíst) [masculine] (Macedonian), भांडवलदार (bhāṇḍvaldār) [masculine] (Marathi), capitalista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), capitalist [masculine] (Romanian), capitalistă [feminine] (Romanian), капитали́ст (kapitalíst) [masculine] (Russian), calpaire [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), kapitalist [masculine] (Slovene), bepari (Swahili), kapitalist [common-gender] (Swedish), นายทุน (naai-tun) (Thai), katädan [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), hikatädan [masculine] (Volapük), jikatädan [feminine] (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-capitalist-en-noun-~fY3510d Disambiguation of 'owner of capital': 68 29 3
  2. Someone whose wealth (capital) is invested in business ventures in order to return a profit. Categories (topical): Capitalism
    Sense id: en-capitalist-en-noun-gu18nFYA Disambiguation of Capitalism: 12 23 0 7 47 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English hybridisms, English terms suffixed with -ist, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Crimean Tatar translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with 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  3. A person who is a supporter of capitalism. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: economic liberal, free enterpriser, liberal Translations (supporter of capitalism): kapitalist (Crimean Tatar), kapitalist [common-gender] (Danish), kapitalist [masculine] (Dutch), kapitaliste [feminine] (Dutch), kapitalisti (Finnish), porvari (Finnish), capitaliste [feminine, masculine] (French), Kapitalist [masculine] (German), Kapitalistin [feminine] (German), पूंजीवादी (pūñjīvādī) [masculine] (Hindi), kapitalis (Indonesian), rachmasaí [masculine] (Irish), caipitlí [masculine] (Irish), capitalista [feminine, masculine] (Italian), капитали́ст (kapitalíst) [masculine] (Macedonian), kapitalis (Malay), bun-argidagh [masculine] (Manx), capitalista [common-gender] (Portuguese), capitalista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), capitalist [masculine] (Romanian), capitalistă [feminine] (Romanian), капитали́ст (kapitalíst) [masculine] (Russian), calpaire [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), kapitalist (Slovene), bepari (Swahili), kapitalist [common-gender] (Swedish), นักทุนนิยม (Thai), kapitalist (Turkish), katädiman [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), hikatädiman [masculine] (Volapük), jikatädiman [feminine] (Volapük), קאַפּיטאַליסט (kapitalist) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-capitalist-en-noun-ZMN6uKy0 Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 42 1 56 Disambiguation of 'supporter of capitalism': 9 1 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: capital, capitalism, capitalize, chapiter, chapter, chattel, state capitalism

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-02-13, page 162:",
          "text": "He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.",
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          "ref": "2019 August 14, Matthew Desmond, “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "This is a capitalist society. It’s a fatalistic mantra that seems to get repeated to anyone who questions why America can’t be more fair or equal. But around the world, there are many types of capitalist societies, ranging from liberating to exploitative, protective to abusive, democratic to unregulated.",
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          "text": "Well, I thank you for your question, but I have to say we're capitalist—and that is just the way it is. However, we do think that capitalism is not necessarily meeting the needs with the income inequality that we have in our country.",
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          "sense": "supporting or endorsing capitalism",
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          "ref": "1818, Edward Cooke, “Thought on the Expedency ^([sic]) of Repealing the Usury Laws”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 13, number 25:",
          "text": "Very little of capital acquired in commerce is directed towards agriculture, save where a wealthy capitalist purchases lands for his own use; but it is seldom, if ever, applied to the improvement of the country, in the hands of the original landholders.",
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          "ref": "1824, John Rooke, An Inquiry into the Principles of National Wealth, page 90:",
          "text": "Were a wealthy English capitalist to dispose of the property that belongs to him in Êngland, which has been realised by former industry, and take it to Van Diemen's Land, where he could have land for nothing, he would probably discover that he had made no very judicious change.",
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          "ref": "1854-1855, William Thackeray, “XLVIII. In which Benedick is a Married Man”, in The Newcomes:",
          "text": "It has been said that I kept a small account with Hobson Brothers, to whose bank I went, and entered the parlour with that trepidation which most poor men feel on presenting themselves before City magnates and capitalists.",
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          "ref": "1882, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal, volume 16, page 337:",
          "text": "The capitalist, often the mere inheritor of wealth, the lucky finder or purchaser of a mine, or a successful gambler in the cereals necessary to life, human and animal, can not boast of his superior power",
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        {
          "ref": "2000, John W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secessions to Loyalty:",
          "text": "He paid out, and received on account of the Government, thousands of dollars daily; and the mere handling of such considerable sums made him feel as if he were a great capitalist.",
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          "ref": "1922 [1825], Thomas Hodgskin with G. D. H. Cole, Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital, published 1828, page 31:",
          "text": "The labourers do only receive, and ever have only received, as much as will subsist them, the landlords receive the surplus produce of the more fertile soils, and all the rest of the whole produce of labour in this and in every country goes to the capitalist under the name of profit for the use of his capital.",
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          "ref": "1906 [1867], Karl Marx, chapter X, in Edward Aveling, Samuel Moore, transl., edited by Friedrich Engels, Capital, volume 1, page 257:",
          "text": "As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus labour.",
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          "ref": "1907 [1880], Friedrich Engels, chapter III, in Edward Aveling, transl., Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, page 55:",
          "text": "The separation was made complete between the means of production concentrated in the hands of the capitalists, on the one side, and the producers, possessing nothing but their labor-power, on the other.",
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          "ref": "1871, John Stephen Wright, Wright's Proposition to a Chicago Railway Capitalist, page 40:",
          "text": "That is all that is asked; and no capitalist in New England can make one quarter on capital in ordinary investments, on what can be made upon Chicago real estate.",
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          "ref": "1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:",
          "text": "“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.[…]”",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:",
          "text": "Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.",
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          "ref": "2007 December 20, Clive Thompson, “Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds”, in Wired Magazine, number 16.01, archived from the original on 2013-06-30:",
          "text": "In a world of cheap airfares, laptops, and the Internet, we proudly regard mobility as a sign of how advanced we are. Hey, we're nomadic hipster capitalists!",
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      "code": "crh",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "supporter of capitalism",
      "word": "porvari"
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "hi",
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      "word": "पूंजीवादी"
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      "code": "id",
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "supporter of capitalism",
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      "code": "ga",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "ro",
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      "code": "gd",
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      "word": "นักทุนนิยม"
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      "code": "az",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "資本家"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zīběnjiā",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "资本家"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kapitalista"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kapitalist"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kapitalist"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "kapitalisti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kapitalist"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kapitalistin"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pūñjīpti",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "पूंजीपति"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "kaum modal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rachmasaí"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "caipitlí"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しほんか",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shihonka",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "資本家"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "kapitalşy",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "капиталшы"
    },
    {
      "alt": "資本家",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jabon'ga",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "자본가"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kapitalíst",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "капитали́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "bhāṇḍvaldār",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "भांडवलदार"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capitalista"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capitalist"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "capitalistă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kapitalíst",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "капитали́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calpaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kapitalist"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "bepari"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kapitalist"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "naai-tun",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "word": "นายทุน"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "katädan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hikatädan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "owner of capital",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jikatädan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "capitalist"
}

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