Sample Sentences forcapitalism (editor-reviewed)
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Capitalism has helped to move millions of people out of poverty.capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
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While most economist see benefits from capitalism, most voters associate it with heartlessness.
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Capitalism may have an invisible hand pushing efficiency, but where is its heart?
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Capitalism is an economic system which is self-destructive because it lacks rational control. (source)
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It's capitalism: Cutthroat, profit-motivated and expedient. (source)capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
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It started to become clear to Wes: the drug game was raw capitalism on overdrive with bullets, a pyramid scheme whose base was dead bodies and ruined lives. (source)
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Her son, the teenage Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, inherently evil, which is ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with an uncanny knack for making a buck. (source)capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
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The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of any value. (source)capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
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The analogy, however, seems to falter when one considers that, while there were no witches then, there are Communists and capitalists now, and in each camp there is certain proof that spies of each side are at work undermining the other. (source)capitalists = people who believe in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
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Let's be honest and give this man his due instead of secretly criticizing his capitalistic talent.† (source)
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I assume it eases his anticapitalist conscience to dwell in poor man's quarters, and that he compensates for it by the style in which he lives.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in anticapitalist means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
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After almost a year back home in America, he has become even more enraged by what he perceives as the injustice of the capitalist system. (source)capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
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I said that the Freedom Charter was not a blueprint for socialism but for African-style capitalism. (source)capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
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I have forgotten their names — Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela, or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be. (source)capitalists = people who are wealthy and clearly benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
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Neither could tolerate the socialistic theory relative to capitalistic exploitation.† (source)
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And we could solve this by having capitalist luxuries?† (source)
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