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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French capitalisme (“the condition of one who is rich”); equivalent to capital +? -ism. First used in English by novelist William Thackeray in 1854.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kap?t(?)l?z(?)m/
• (General American) enPR: k?p??-tl-?z'm, IPA^(key): /?kæp??tl???zm?/

Noun

capitalism (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisms)

1. (politics) A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital.
2. (economics) An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
3. (politics, economic liberalism) 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.
4. (economics, economic liberalism) An 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.

Quotations

Derived terms

• anarcho-capitalism
• crony capitalism
• late capitalism
• state capitalism
• savage capitalism

Related terms

• capital
• capitalist
• capitalistic
• capitalistically

Translations

See also

Further reading

• capitalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• capitalism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• capitalism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• capitalism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "capitalism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 50.

Romanian

Etymology

From French capitalisme

Noun

capitalism n (uncountable)

1. capitalism

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English liberte, from Old French liberté, from Latin libertas (“freedom”), from liber (“free”); see liberal.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?b?ti/

Noun

liberty (countable and uncountable, plural liberties)

1. The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
2. The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.

3. The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
4. Freedom from excessive government control.
5. A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.

6. (often plural) A breach of social convention.

7. A local division of government administration in medieval England.
8. (game of Go) an empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.

Synonyms

• freedom

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• liberty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• liberty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Liberty in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• liberty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Liberty (division) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Birtley, Tribley

Italian

Noun

liberty m (invariable)

1. art nouveau