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Definition of Capitalists
1. capitalist [n] - See also: capitalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitalists
Literary usage of Capitalists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"There are four classes of criminal capitalists: 1. ... It is the practical impunity
of these capitalists which supports the breed of thieves, burglars and ..."
2. A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution in English by Edwin Cannan (1903)
"Distribution of Pro/its among Capitalists. The proportions in which the total
profits made in a country are divided among the various capitalists must ..."
3. The Laborer and the Capitalist by Freeman Otis Willey (1896)
"The next logical question then is: Who are the capitalists? ... Where shall we
draw the line and say that all above are capitalists and all below are not, ..."
4. A History of the Presidency by Edward Stanwood (1916)
"The raw materials and industries of the United States are owned by the Garys,
Morgans, Rockefellers, Fords, McCormicks, and other great capitalists. ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1854)
"Mr. Gary's remarks were made for the purpose of showing that the general law
tended to deter capitalists from taking shares in corporations in that State, ..."
6. Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce Bryce (1900)
"The mine-owning capitalists were a very small class, ... Nevertheless, these
capitalists, 1 like capitalists all over the world, disliked force, ..."
7. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1875)
"Capitalists not to be coerced politically. Inheritance to be re- Being, as women
represent its sympathy, and philosophers its intellect. ..."
8. The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society: Presiding by Scott Nearing, American Socialist Society (1919)
"The war was necessarily a capitalists' war. A war between capitalist nations,
and as we all know now, or think we know, it was primarily a war over the ..."
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