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/ˈkapətlist/,
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capitalists, plural;
  1. A wealthy person who uses money to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism
    • - the creation of the factory system by nineteenth-century capitalists
  1. (capitalism) an economic system based on private ownership of capital
  2. (capitalist) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
  3. (capitalistic) favoring or practicing capitalism
  4. (Capitalism (card game)) Asshole (also less commonly known as President, Presidents & Assholes, Kings & Assholes, Kings & Servants, Shlub, Scum(bag), Capitalism, Pimps & Hoes, Butt and other names), an Americanized version of Dai Hin Min, is a card game for three or more in which players race to ...
  5. (Capitalism (video game)) Capitalism is a business simulation computer game first published in 1995 by Interactive Magic, developed by Enlight for the Macintosh and MS-DOS and designed by Trevor Chan. ...
  6. (Capitalism) An economic system in which private individuals and corporations own goods, aim to make a profit and have freedom to set prices for goods and services
  7. (capitalism) an economic and political system where a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the government or citizens for the greater good of everybody.
  8. (Capitalism) You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
  9. (capitalism) a social system of individual rights, including property rights, provisioned by a state
  10. (Capitalism) Political-economic system wherein the state grants individuals the power to control private property (capital) and thus, hold a position of institutional power over the majority of individuals who do not. Advancement in capitalist society is therefore based upon competition.
  11. (Capitalism) An economic system founded by Adam Smith whose central features are private property, profit, and competition.  Private property means that all (or almost all) property, from land to the means of production (industry), is owned privately by individuals. ...
  12. (Capitalism) an economic and social system in which individuals can maximize profits because they own the means of production.
  13. (CAPITALISM) n.  Man exploiting man. Socialism: The reverse.
  14. (Capitalism) A socio-economic system characterized by private initiative and the private ownership of factors of production. In such a system individuals have the right to own and use wealth to earn income and to sell and purchase labor for wages. ...
  15. (Capitalism) A system under which private entrepreneurs have complete freedom to devise and control production and distribution for their own profits, competition being the only limiting factor
  16. (Capitalism) Economic organization based upon the free market and inherent individual rights.
  17. (Capitalism) Private ownership of the businesses of a society with the freedom of private owners to use, buy and sell their property or services on the market at voluntarily agreed prices and terms, with only minimal interference with such transactions by the state or other authoritative third ...
  18. (Capitalism) The economic theory that a nation’s prosperity relies on a more productive use of human capital and that by increasing the division of labor there would be greater productivity, the development of new machinery, and of new skills and trades among workers. ...
  19. (Capitalism) The inherently barbaric system of survival of the fittest, invented and perpetrated by greedy, aggressive white males who seize what really belongs equally to all of us through unscrupulous “voluntary” transactions. ...
  20. (Capitalism) The most loathsome sociopolitical monetary philosophy in all human history.  Capitalism allows the clever and sneaky among us to exploit the valuable labor of the poor and become undeservedly wealthy through a process specifically designed to keep the People grubbing around in ...
  21. (Capitalism) This is an economic system and ideology based around the idea of people trading on a market, owning private property and accumulating capital to invest in financial or industrial enterprise. ...
  22. (Capitalism) an economic system where free enterprise, or business unhampered by the government, rules. See neoliberalism, economic liberalism
  23. (Capitalism) developed in the late 1700's in Europe and described by Adam Smith as an economy that worked best with the businessman and the buyer (supply and demand) making decisions about what products to make and how much to charge.
  24. (Capitalism) expressing one's fear of public disclosure by using all caps in a memo
  25. (Capitalism) the process of using wealth to produce more wealth. Not to be confused with political processes of privilege.