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Someone who hopes to profit by investing money, or in business ventures, is a capitalist. A nation's economy is described as capitalist if it's based on private ownership and profit.

The word capitalist appeared in 1791, taken from the French word capitaliste. A capitalist is someone who believes in the economic philosophy of Capitalism, a system of privately-owned, for-profit businesses. A capitalist might believe in free enterprise and the individual’s ability to gain wealth through intelligence and hard work. Capitalist can also be used to describe a self-interested, every-man-for-himself approach to the world.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: capitalist

1	adj n	of or relating to capitalism or capitalists a conservative advocate of capitalism
2	n	a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: capitalist

adj of or relating to capitalism or capitalists

“a capitalist nation”

Synonyms:: capitalistic

adj favoring or practicing capitalism

Synonyms:: capitalistic

: bourgeois
(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class; competitive, free-enterprise, private-enterprise
subscribing to capitalistic competition; individualistic, laissez-faire
with minimally restricted freedom in commerce

Antonyms:: socialist, socialistic
advocating or following the socialist principles; collective
set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled
subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively; left
of or belonging to the political or intellectual left; show more antonyms...

n a conservative advocate of capitalism

Type of:: conservative, conservativist
a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

n a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)

Examples:: show 67 examples...; hide 67 examples...; John Jacob Astor
United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848); Bernard Mannes Baruch
economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965); James Buchanan Brady
United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917); Andrew Carnegie
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919); Jay Cooke
United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905); Peter Cooper
United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883); Ezra Cornell
United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874); Cosimo de Medici
Italian financier and statesman and friend of the papal court (1389-1464); Glenn Hammond Curtiss
United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930); Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900); John Deere
United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886); George Eastman
United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932); Henry Ford
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947); Edsel Bryant Ford
son of Henry Ford (1893-1943); Henry Ford II
grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987); Henry Clay Frick
United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919); William Henry Gates
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955); King Camp Gilette
United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932); Stephen Girard
United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831); Jay Gould
United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892); Sir Thomas Gresham
English financier (1519-1579); Meyer Guggenheim
United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905); Edward Henry Harriman
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909); William Averell Harriman
United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986); Charles Henry Harrod
English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885); Charles Digby Harrod
English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905); Henry John Heinz
United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919); James Jerome Hill
United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916); William Henry Hoover
United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932); Johns Hopkins
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873); Howard Robard Hughes
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976); Collis Potter Huntington
United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900); Friedrich Krupp
German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826); Edwin Herbert Land
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991); First Baron Marks of Broughton
English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964); Andrew William Mellon
United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937); John Pierpont Morgan
United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913); Robert Morris
leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806); First Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963); Wilhelm von Opel
German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948); Elisha Graves Otis
United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861); Robert Owen
Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858); Sir Frederick Handley Page
English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962); Cecil John Rhodes
British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902); John Davison Rockefeller
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937); Rothschild
any of family of powerful Jewish bankers in Europe; Haym Salomon
American financier and American Revolutionary War patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785); David Sarnoff
United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971); Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky
United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972); Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940); Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922); Leland Stanford
United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893); George Stephenson
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848); Commodore Vanderbilt
United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877); Henry Villard
United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900); John Wanamaker
United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922); Aaron Montgomery Ward
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913); Frank Winfield Woolworth
United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919); Rudolf Wurlitzer
United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914); William Maxwell Aitken
British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964); Alfred Charles William Harmsworth
British newspaper publisher (1865-1922); Benjamin Harris
publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713); William Randolph Hearst
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951); Joseph Pulitzer
United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911); James Edmund Scripps
United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908); Edward Wyllis Scripps
United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926); Gustavus Franklin Swift
United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)

Types:: show 31 types...; hide 31 types...; bourgeois, businessperson
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise; financier, moneyman
a person skilled in large scale financial transactions; bearer, holder
the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it; investor
someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns; materialist
someone with great regard for material possessions; moneymaker
someone who is successful in accumulating wealth; profiteer
someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply); contrarian
an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors; accountant, comptroller, controller
someone who maintains and audits business accounts; account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative
someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business; agent, broker, factor
a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission; banker
a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank; bear
an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price; bondholder
a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation; bull
an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later; businessman, man of affairs
a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive); businesswoman
a female businessperson; caller
an investor who buys a call option; city man
a financier who works in one of the banks in the City of London; depositor
a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution; enterpriser, entrepreneur
someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it; exporter
a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale); importer
someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country); lender, loaner
someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters; merchandiser, merchant
a businessperson engaged in retail trade; moneygrubber
someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking; dealer, principal
the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account; rentier
someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments; shipper
someone who ships goods; shareholder, shareowner, stockholder
someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation; provider, supplier
someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

Type of:: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being

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