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- pronunciation:
- kae
pih
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lih
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- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
| definition: |
an economic system in which land, factories, and other resources are owned by individuals instead of the government. In this system, the prices of things we buy are decided by the people who sell them and not by the government.
Under capitalism, the rights of the individual are important.- similar words:
- competition
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communism, feudalism, socialism |
The word capitalism
contains the following parts:
cap2, capit, cipit
Latin
root
that means head
  Example words:
-ism2
Greek
noun-forming suffix
that means doctrine, belief, theory
More about this word part:
The suffix -ism2 has the same origin as -ism1 but attaches to bases of diverse origins to form nouns denoting doctrines, beliefs, or theories. In the growing group of words modeled on the word "racism
," -ism
means "bias based on," as in "sexism" and "ageism
." The majority of nouns ending in -ism2 have a corresponding adjective and noun form ending in -ist.
Example words:
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