HOW TO PRONOUNCE
capitalism
/ˈkæpɪtəˌlɪzəm/
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Keep the primary stress on “cap.”
Use five vowel beats, including two in the ism ending. Give the opening short a the strongest beat, with a lighter secondary beat near the end.
5 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The seminar explores the history of capitalism.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does capitalism mean?
noun
- A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources, and capital and their exploitation for profit.
- An economic system based on private control of the means of production and the exploitation of labour by capital.
- 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.
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/ˈkæpɪtəˌlɪzəm/
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Under capitalism the world has been able to feed twice as many mouths as could be fed before.
Today the Catholic Church is firmly established and everywhere recognized as one of the main pillars of American capitalism.
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The financial economy of American capitalism exhibits in more dramatic shape a tendency common to the finance of all developed industrial nations.
The greatest asset of the capitalism of that age was, as a matter of fact, the uncontrolled breeding among the laboring classes.
But capitalism rather than a social humanism took its place.