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economicides

economicides is the plural of economicide.

Meaning of economicide

Noun

economicide (plural economicides)

  1. The destruction of an economic system by replacing it with a market economy.
    • Wester privatization and collectivization both lead to economicide, or the destruction of the economic basis of reciprocity.1990, African Environment, page 514
  2. Genocide that results from destroying a people's economic basis.
    • Thus it was possible to commit genocide by means of economicide and this, in turn, was the direct result of state planning.1988, International Freedom Review: 1988:Fall-1989:Summer, page 7

Questions about economicides

What is economicides the plural of?
Economicides is the plural of economicide.

Words near economicides in the dictionary

  1. economically
  2. economically motivated adulteration
  3. economically motivated adulterations
  4. economicalness
  5. economicide
  6. economicides
  7. economick
  8. economicly
  9. economicology
  10. economics
  11. Economides

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