capitaˈlistic, a.
[f. capitalist + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to capitalists.
| 1873 in Doc. Hist. Amer. Industr. Soc. (1910) IX. 371 The growth of capitalistic association and monetary institution. 1877 A. Douai Better Times (1884) 7 The offshoot of capitalistic production. 1884 Christian Union (N.Y.) 24 Apr. 390 The substitution of some form of co-operation in production and exchange for the capitalistic method. 1935 Discovery Mar. 81/1 These two systems ‘communistic’ or ‘capitalistic’. |