- an economic system in which a country’s businesses and industry are controlled and run for profit by private owners rather than by the government
- the growth of industrial capitalism in the West
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyc1, Politicsc1- They predicted the fall of world capitalism.
- He was one of the leading advocates of laissez-faire capitalism.
- She deplored unbridled capitalism as much as communism.
- a protest against global capitalism
- a study of the development of agriculture under capitalism
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- advanced
- contemporary
- late
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- destroy
- overthrow
- replace
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- under capitalism
- the advance of capitalism
- the rise of capitalism
- the fall of capitalism
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