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turbocapitalism

noun

Etymology

From turbo- + capitalism, popularized by Edward Luttwak in Turbo-Capitalism (1998).

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

Definitions

  1. An accelerated form of capitalism that lacks measures to keep the system in equilibrium…

    An accelerated form of capitalism that lacks measures to keep the system in equilibrium and prevent social unrest.

    • Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.
    • David Cameron has marched onto territory staked out by Ed Miliband by promising that there would be no return to the "turbo-capitalism" of recent decades.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA