Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists.
- adjective Favoring or practicing capitalism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to capital or capitalists; representing or carried on by capital or capitalists; founded on or believing in capitalism: as, capitalistic production; capitalistic opinions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists.
- adjective Favoring or practicing capitalism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
capitalism or tocapitalists . - adjective Organised on a capitalist basis.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to capitalism or capitalists
- adjective favoring or practicing capitalism
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Examples
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I am a firm believer in capitalistic competition as a driver for innovation (which is why I hate the oil companies SO SO much, dirty price setting oligarchs!) and the RPG market should be no different.
So What Is A “Fair” Price For A Gaming PDF? « Geek Related 2009
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George Soros made most of his money in capitalistic economies.
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He had written a paper proposing a “new” kind of capitalism that was little more than the same old disproved Keynesian, government spending model couched in capitalistic language.
Textbook Omissions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Of course, it needed prosperity in capitalistic Europe and America to do that, because the more prosperous capitalistic Europe and America are, the more money Russia could borrow, the more machinery she could get, the better exchange of exports in terms of machinery, money and personnel, and in 25 years this great machine would have been created which would have been the Nemesis of Western capitalism.
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A giant threat to the system is being disposed of, systematically and without remorse, making of America and its citizens yet one more cog in the engine called capitalistic exploitation of humanity.
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In modern society, even amongst the so-called capitalistic countries, nationalisation of certain industries and commercial undertakings has become an accepted and established fact.
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Free Enterprise I describe as the capitalistic or profit and loss system operating with only those restrictions necessary to protect the public welfare.
Free Enterprise 1948
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That is why this era is called the capitalistic era.
Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914
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We do not believe that there is anything essentially the matter with what is called our capitalistic system or our labor union system except men -- the men who think they belong in the front ranks of capital and the front ranks of labor.
The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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This count comes under the head of what may be called capitalistic sabotage.
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893
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