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noun

ˈka-pə-tə-list How to pronounce capitalist (audio)
Definition of capitalistnext
as in have
a wealthy person capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash

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capitalist

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adjective

variants or capitalistic
as in economic

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Recent Examples of capitalist
Noun
Doctors and venture capitalists, mothers and fathers, even your grandparents are slipping away from their jobs and their families to take psychedelics and connect with God. — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026 In a weekend post responding to Amodei's essay, Sacks, a venture capitalist with investments in AI startups, said the two leading model developers should police themselves rather than asking the government to do it. — Lora Kolodny,jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
Adjective
While this might seem like capitalist sacrilege, Gearin says there’s historical precedent for Indigenous peoples using plant medicine as a tool to navigate the practical demands of the world. — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026 Birth rates have plunged in social democracies and capitalist autocracies alike. — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for capitalist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist
  1. have
  2. economic
  3. plutocrat
  4. commercial
  5. money
  6. magnate
  7. billionaire
Noun
  • His image suggests an instinct for how a certain can’t-have-it distance is a condition of cool and bankability.
    — David Lê, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2026
  • And is a 165-pound back your best north-south option on a gotta-have-it conversion when Micah Welch, who outweighs Taylor by 50 pounds, could hammer it home?
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of have
Adjective
  • Advertisement Perhaps more importantly, the bloc is incorporating climate into the core of its economic planning.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Hichilema’s stance matches that of regional rivals who are trying to use the scramble for critical minerals to drive economic development.
    — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of economic
Noun
  • Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The provenance of an otherwise unknown plutocrat probably does not.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of plutocrat
Adjective
  • The vehicles are designed to accommodate anything from a single experiment module to a larger commercial manufacturing payload.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • In the month since Tesla’s Cybercab rollout in Austin, the company has almost quadrupled the number of its driverless, bronze two-seaters authorized for commercial service in Texas.
    — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of commercial
Noun
  • The organization, created in 1961 by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, receives no government funding, and raises money through private donations and sales of retail merchandise.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • With his ring powered up, John flies over and drops off a bag of money as restitution to the waitress Maggie (Hannah Christine Shetler) who lost her family in the Manhunter attack.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of money
Noun
  • Oprah Winfrey is many things—a source of wisdom, a business magnate, and a style icon.
    — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Kounalakis holds a master’s in business administration from UC Berkeley and is the daughter of Sacramento real estate magnate Angelo Tsakopolous.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of magnate
Noun
  • In an interview about Griffin’s donation to CMU this week, CNBC’s Sara Eisen asked the billionaire whether his decision to invest in Carnegie Mellon’s Miami campus had to do with his concerns over college students’ growing interest in socialism.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The measure would affect roughly 200 of California's billionaires, with the money going to cover federal Medi-Cal cuts.
    — Juhi Doshi, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of billionaire

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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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