Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

supercapitalism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: su-per-cap-i-tal-ism
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.

Uncountable

noun

A form of degenerated capitalism.

Dated; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Together, newly powerful shoppers and shareholders of this supercapitalism drove a decline in labor unions and a frenzy by corporations desperate to buy some market advantage in Washington."
"When Lenin spoke about “a series of exclusions from freedom” which individuals and “capitalists” enjoy in what he called “democratism”, he was not very far away from Mussolini's rejection of “supercapitalism” which according to him meant the degeneration of “heroic and dynamic capitalism.”"

Etymology

From super- + capitalism.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: super

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

late capitalism

Synonyms

hypercapitalism

Questions

What does supercapitalism mean?: Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.
Where does supercapitalism come from?: From super- + capitalism.

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