capitalist
(ˈkæpɪtəlɪst)
[f. capital n.2 + -ist.]
One who has accumulated capital; one who has capital available for employment in financial or industrial enterprises. Also attrib. and Comb., as capitalist-imperialist.
| 1792 A. Young Trav. France 529 A gross evil of these direct imposts is, that of moneyed men, or capitalists, escaping all taxation. 1823 Coleridge Table-t. 27 Apr., The poor-rates are the consideration paid by..capitalists for having labour at demand. 1845 Disraeli Sybil (1863) 95 The capitalist flourishes, he amasses immense wealth; we sink, lower and lower; lower than the beasts of burthen. 1845 J. S. Mill in Edin. Rev. LXXXI. 525 This is true of capitalist farmers..but not of labourer-farmers. 1867 J. B. Kinnear Quest. for Refd. Parlt. 213 The capitalist class. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 247 The capitalist-imperialist governments..will not fight with any conviction against Fascism. |