Associations to the word «Capitalism»

Wiktionary

CAPITALISM, noun. (politics) (uncountable) a socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
CAPITALISM, noun. (economics) (uncountable) a socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources into the form of privately owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
CAPITALISM, noun. (countable) a specific variation or implementation of either such socio-economic system.

Dictionary definition

CAPITALISM, noun. An economic system based on private ownership of capital.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King