Capitalist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Capitalist \Cap"i*tal*ist\ (k[a^]p"[i^]*tal*[i^]st), n. [Cf. F.
     capitaliste.]
     One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or
     money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is
     employed in business.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           The expenditure of the capitalist.       --Burke.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  capitalist
       adj 1: of or relating to capitalism or capitalists; "a capitalist
              nation"; "capitalistic methods and incentives" [syn: {capitalistic}]
       2: favoring or practicing capitalism [syn: {capitalistic}]
          [ant: {socialistic}]
       n 1: a conservative advocate of capitalism
       2: a person who invests capital in a business (especially a
          large business)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "capitalist":
     Daddy Warbucks, Wall Streeter, billionaire, bloated plutocrat,
     bourgeois, economist, fat cat, finance capitalist,
     financial expert, financier, free-enterprise, individualist,
     individualistic, investor, man of means, man of substance,
     man of wealth, millionaire, moneybags, moneyed man, moneyman,
     multimillionaire, nabob, nonsocialistic, parvenu, plutocrat,
     private-enterprise, rich man, richling, rugged individualist,
     warm man, wealthy man