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Plural of capitalism

regular plural

The plural of capitalism is capitalisms.

Forms of capitalism

Singularcapitalism /ˈkapɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/
Pluralcapitalisms
Countablecountable and uncountable

Capitalisms in a sentence

  • But there are two late capitalisms.1994, Stanley Aronowitz, Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems, page 3. From the entry late capitalisms

Meaning of capitalism

  1. noun A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources, and capital and their exploitation for profit.
  2. noun An economic system based on private control of the means of production and the exploitation of labour by capital.
  3. noun An economic system based on private property and the abstraction of resources into the form of privately owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

Full definition of capitalism

Questions about the plural of capitalism

What is the plural of capitalism?
The plural of capitalism is capitalisms.
Is capitalism countable?
Capitalism is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capitalism (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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