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capitalist

noun as in person engaged in private ownership of business

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Even after Holmes’s conviction, venture capitalist Tim Draper, an early investor in Theranos, said he was alarmed about the case having a chilling effect on business.

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Relentless market uncertainty and narrowing opportunities to take startups public are leading venture capitalists to take a step back from biotechnology.

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There’s only one thing worse than being exploited by rapacious capitalists and that’s not being exploited by them.

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He very much believes he’s doing right by Tulsa’s everyday people, a working-class community at the mercy of men like Donald Washberg and the capitalist power brokers silently enabling his political career.

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Bailout money is likely to be invested in “market-moving purchases that push up the value of assets and local currency,” and hedge funds and vulture capitalists “will see a windfall.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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