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| Main Entry: |
capitalist
 [kap-i-tl-ist] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person engaged in private ownership of business |
| Synonyms: | backer, banker, bourgeois, businessperson, entrepreneur, financier, investor, landowner, moneybags, one who signs the checks, plutocrat, the boss, the money |
| Antonyms: | communist |
| Main Entry: | businessperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | professional working person |
| Synonyms: | baron, big wheel, big-time operator, businessman, businesswoman, capitalist, career person, dealer, employer, entrepreneur, executive, financier, franchiser, gray flannel suit, industrialist, manager, merchandiser, merchant, operator, organization person, small potatoes, storekeeper, suit*, the bacon, tradesperson, trafficker, tycoon, wheeler-dealer, working woman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | employer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, business who hires |
| Synonyms: | CEO, CO, big shot, boss, businessperson, capitalist, chief, company, corporation, director, entrepreneur, establishment, executive, firm, front office, head, head honcho, juice*, kingpin, management, manager, manufacturer, meal ticket, organization, outfit, overseer, owner, patron, president, proprietor, slavedriver, superintendent, supervisor, workers big cheese |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- In two decades, private-equity firms have moved from the outer fringe to the centre of the capitalist system.
- There's no free lunch in a capitalist corporate state.
- But the left, which might have expected to have benefited from a capitalist meltdown, is no better off.
| Main Entry: | financier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who lends money, advises |
| Synonyms: | Santa Claus, backer, banker, bankroller, broker, businessperson, capitalist, entrepreneur, fat cat, grubstaker, manipulator, merchant, money, money lender, moneybags, operator, person who writes the checks, rich person, speculator, sponsor, staker, stockbroker, tycoon, usurer |
| Main Entry: | investor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financier |
| Synonyms: | backer, banker, capitalist, lender, shareholder, stockholder, venture capitalist |
| Main Entry: | magnate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | important person, usually in business |
| Synonyms: | VIP, aristocrat, bigwig, businessperson, capitalist, captain of industry, chief, figure, financier, industrialist, leader, lion*, merchant, mogul, name, noble, notable, peer, personage, plutocrat, tycoon |
| Notes: | a magnate is a very wealthy, influential, or powerful person or businessperson, while a magnet is a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field |
| Antonyms: | lowly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tycoon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has a lot of money, power |
| Synonyms: | administrator, big shot, boss, business person, capitalist, captain of industry, director, entrepreneur, executive, fat cat, financier, industrialist, investor, magnate, mogul, wealthy person |
| Antonyms: | pauper |
| Main Entry: | plutocrat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealthy person with power |
| Synonyms: | capitalist, magnate, tycoon |
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