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anticapital

anticapital adjective: tending to erode the preservation of capital.

Adjective

anticapital (not comparable)

  1. Tending to erode the preservation of capital.
    • This illusion has to be an underlying factor in the anticapital bias of the tax law.1975, United States. Congress. House. Ways and Means Committee, Tax Reform (Administration and Public Witnesses), Public Hearings... (page 595)
    • Disguising selections refers to those actions that give the appearance of class neutrality while excluding anticapital solutions (this corresponds roughly to symbolic action).2020, Kitty Calavita, U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1924

Origin of anticapital

From anti- + capital.

Questions about anticapital

What does anticapital mean?
Anticapital means tending to erode the preservation of capital.
What part of speech is anticapital?
Anticapital is an adjective.

Words near anticapital in the dictionary

  1. anticannibalism
  2. anticannibalistic
  3. anticanon
  4. anticanonical
  5. anticanons
  6. anticapital
  7. anticapitalism
  8. anticapitalisms
  9. anticapitalist
  10. anticapitalistic
  11. anticapitalists

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