Look up: capitalism

1. capitalism
   [Noun] An economic system based on private ownership of goods and property.
   Example: Some Eastern European countries replaced the communist system with capitalism in the final years of the 20th century.
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2. Capitalism
   A system of economic enterprise based on market exchange. ‘Capital` refers to any asset, including money, property and machines, which can be used to produce commodities for sale or invested in a market with the hope of achieving a profit. Nearly all industrial societies today are capitalist i...
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3. capitalism
   [n] - an economic system based on private ownership of capital
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4. capitalism
   a system of economic production, with distinctive institutions and social relations, which emerged in the West in the sixteenth century and which has continued to develop and extend its range since. As a system capitalism is characterized by private ownership of productive property, profitmaking as ...
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5. Capitalism
   an economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are privately owned
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6. capitalism
   Economic system in which the principal means of production, distribution, and exchange are in private (individual or corporate) hands and competitively operated for profit. A mixed economy combines...
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7. capitalism
   capitalist economy noun an economic system based on private ownership of capital
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8. capitalism
   economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most of the means of production are privately owned and ... [50 related articles]
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9. capitalism
   capitalism 1. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market. 2. An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of produc...
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10. Capitalism
    An economic system in which capital is mostly owned by private individuals and corporations. Contrasts with communism.
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11. capitalism
    capitalism, economic system based on private ownership of the means of production, in which personal profit can be acquired through investment of capital and employment of labor. Capitalism is grounded in the concept of free enterprise, which argues that government intervention in the economy should...
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12. Capitalism
    A mode of economic production which is characterized by the fact that the instruments of production (land, factories, raw materials, etc.) are controlled to a greater or lesser extent by private individuals or groups. Since the control an individual can exercise over means of production is never abs...
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13. capitalism
    Economic system in which the principal means of production, distribution, and exchange are in private (individual or corporate) hands and competitively operated for profit. A mixed economy combines the private enterprise of capitalism and a degree of state monopoly, as in nationalized industries and...
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14. capitalism
    an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained by private individuals.
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15. Capitalism
    `Capitalism` is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit, usually in competitive markets. Income in a capitalist system takes at least two forms, profit on the one hand and wages on the other. There is also a tradition that treats ...
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16. 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. Other similar business simulation games include Industry Giant, Entrepreneur and Th...
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