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supercapitalism

noun

Etymology

From super- + capitalism.

  1. derived from *kap-✻
  2. derived from *káput✻
  3. borrowed from capitalisme — “the condition of one who is rich”
  4. prefixed as supercapitalism — “super + capitalism”

Definitions

  1. Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.

    • Together, newly powerful shoppers and shareholders of this supercapitalism drove a decline in labor unions and a frenzy by corporations desperate to buy some market advantage in Washington.

  2. A form of degenerated capitalism.

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