CAPITALIST ECONOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capitalist economy mean? 

• CAPITALIST ECONOMY (noun)
  The noun CAPITALIST ECONOMY has 1 sense:

1. an economic system based on private ownership of capital

  Familiarity information: CAPITALIST ECONOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITALIST ECONOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An economic system based on private ownership of capital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

capitalism; capitalist economy

Hypernyms ("capitalist economy" is a kind of...):

free enterprise; laissez-faire economy; market economy; private enterprise (an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capitalist economy"):

venture capitalism (capitalism that invests in innovative enterprises (especially high technology) where the potential profits are large)