{
    "term": "capitalism",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an economic system in which a country’s businesses and industry are controlled and run for profit by private owners rather than by the government",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the growth of industrial capitalism in the West"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They predicted the fall of world capitalism."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was one of the leading advocates of laissez-faire capitalism."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She deplored unbridled capitalism as much as communism."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a protest against global capitalism"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a study of the development of agriculture under capitalism"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money", "Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["advanced", "contemporary", "late"],
                "verb + capitalism": ["destroy", "overthrow", "replace"],
                "preposition": ["under capitalism"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the advance of capitalism",
                    "the rise of capitalism",
                    "the fall of capitalism"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkæpɪtəlɪzəm/",
                "audio": "ca/capitalism/capitalism__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkæpɪtəlɪzəm/",
                "audio": "ca/capitalism/capitalism__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}