capitalist system

collocation in English

meaningsofcapitalistandsystem

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capitalist
adjective
uk
/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl.ɪst/
us
/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl.ɪst/
based on the system of capitalism (= an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are controlled by private owners rather than by the state, with the purpose of making ...
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system
noun
uk
/ˈsɪs.təm/
us
/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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(Definition ofcapitalistandsystemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcapitalist system

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However, the roles of each spouse are really all part of the samecapitalistsystem.
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This is because colonialism involved a re-ordering of the economic structures within each colony to integrate them into the worldcapitalistsystem.
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Beyond this wonderful normative vision, there are, inevitably, a few questions, most of which concern the practical aspects of reform in thecapitalistsystem.
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But without the defense of civil society, it is extremely difficult to make a workablecapitalistsystemthat can deliver economic growth.
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This package is intended to promote growth and stability within an essentially free market and private enterprisecapitalistsystem.
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In a world increasingly dominated by a globalcapitalistsystem, more and more decisions lie outside the direct control of individual states.
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He had maintained that the producer and consumer shared a common interest in having thecapitalistsystemwork properly.
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Thecapitalistsystemis the most dynamic and ruthless transforming force in human history.
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Yet the version of the liberalcapitalistsystemto which they aspired diverged from the neo-liberal one in crucial respects.
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Marxists were split on this issue as some argued that the peasant economy by providing cheap food and cheap labour could be functional to thecapitalistsystem.
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They emphasize that hierarchies and factories are not necessarily technologically superior to free markets but rather are devices of control in the course of industrial development under thecapitalistsystem.
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But they are faced with a situation whereby if they want to communicate their music to a wider audience then they have to do this through thecapitalistsystem.
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It is one thing to illustrate a correspondence between the accumulation of notes in nineteenth-century music and the accumulation of wealth in thecapitalistsystemof that same century.
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Corruption was no longer a puzzle, but simply an inevitable by-product of capitalist democracy and an intrinsically corrupt internationalcapitalistsystemin which lower-class groups are routinely and systematically exploited.
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That is, he considers music and noise as they exist within acapitalistsystemof production, and as such they are firmly rooted in their socio-economic context.
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Internal political forces in the periphery were given little or no autonomy, and were seen as wholly dependent on the core which controls the internationalcapitalistsystem.
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The injustices of world trade are the fruit of the development and global expansion of thecapitalistsystemitself.
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