English > capitalist: 4 senses > noun 2, person | Meaning | A person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business). |
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| Category | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business | The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects |
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| Instances | Astor, John Jacob Astor | United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848) |
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| Narrower | businessperson, bourgeois | A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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| financier, moneyman | A person skilled in large scale financial transactions |
| holder, bearer | 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 / wealth |
| profiteer | someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Spanish | capitalista |
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| Catalan | capitalista |
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| Nouns | capital | wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value |
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| capital | assets available for use in the production of further assets |
