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capitalism
An economic system based on private ownership, private decisions, and open competition in a free market.
🌱In the 1980s, the leaders of the free world had faith that capitalism and a free-market economy would solve all our problems. 🌳Capital is wealth—that is, money and goods—that's used to produce more wealth. Capitalism is practiced enthusiastically by capitalists, people who use capital to increase production and make more goods and money. Capitalism works by encouraging competition in a fair and open market. Its opposite is often said to be socialism. Where a capitalist economy encourages private actions and ownership, socialism prefers public or government ownership and control of parts of the economy. In a pure capitalist system, there would be no public schools or public parks, no government programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and maybe not even any public highways or police. In a pure socialist system, there wouldn't be any private corporations. In other words, there's just about no such thing as pure capitalism or pure socialism in the modern world. capitulate To surrender or stop resisting; give up.
🌱At 2:00 a.m. the last three senators finally capitulated, allowing the bill to move forward. 🌳Capitulation often refers to surrender on the battlefield. Originally it only referred to surrender according to an agreement, though that part of the meaning is often absent. Today a teacher can capitulate to her students' cries of protest against a homework assignment, or a father can capitulate to his kids' pleas to stop for ice cream, when the only terms of the agreement are that they'll stop complaining. decapitate 1、 To cut off the head; behead.
2、 To destroy or make useless.
🌱The leaders of the uprising were decapitated, and their heads were mounted on long poles on London Bridge as a warning to the people. 🌳Decapitation is a quick and fairly painless way to go, so it was once considered suitable only for nobles like Sir Walter Raleigh, Mary Queen of Scots, and two of Henry VIII's unfortunate wives. The invention of the guillotine in the 18th century was meant to make execution swifter and more painless than hanging or a badly aimed blow by the executioner's sword. recapitulate To repeat or summarize the most important points or stages.
🌱At the end of his talk, the president carefully recapitulated the main points in order. 🌳Capitulation originally meant the organizing of material under headings. So recapitulation usually involves the gathering of the main ideas in a brief summary. But a recapitulation may be a complete restatement as well. In many pieces of classical music, the recapitulation, or recap, is the long final section of a movement, where the earlier music is restated in the main key.
🌱In the 1980s, the leaders of the free world had faith that capitalism and a free-market economy would solve all our problems. 🌳Capital is wealth—that is, money and goods—that's used to produce more wealth. Capitalism is practiced enthusiastically by capitalists, people who use capital to increase production and make more goods and money. Capitalism works by encouraging competition in a fair and open market. Its opposite is often said to be socialism. Where a capitalist economy encourages private actions and ownership, socialism prefers public or government ownership and control of parts of the economy. In a pure capitalist system, there would be no public schools or public parks, no government programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and maybe not even any public highways or police. In a pure socialist system, there wouldn't be any private corporations. In other words, there's just about no such thing as pure capitalism or pure socialism in the modern world. capitulate To surrender or stop resisting; give up.
🌱At 2:00 a.m. the last three senators finally capitulated, allowing the bill to move forward. 🌳Capitulation often refers to surrender on the battlefield. Originally it only referred to surrender according to an agreement, though that part of the meaning is often absent. Today a teacher can capitulate to her students' cries of protest against a homework assignment, or a father can capitulate to his kids' pleas to stop for ice cream, when the only terms of the agreement are that they'll stop complaining. decapitate 1、 To cut off the head; behead.
2、 To destroy or make useless.
🌱The leaders of the uprising were decapitated, and their heads were mounted on long poles on London Bridge as a warning to the people. 🌳Decapitation is a quick and fairly painless way to go, so it was once considered suitable only for nobles like Sir Walter Raleigh, Mary Queen of Scots, and two of Henry VIII's unfortunate wives. The invention of the guillotine in the 18th century was meant to make execution swifter and more painless than hanging or a badly aimed blow by the executioner's sword. recapitulate To repeat or summarize the most important points or stages.
🌱At the end of his talk, the president carefully recapitulated the main points in order. 🌳Capitulation originally meant the organizing of material under headings. So recapitulation usually involves the gathering of the main ideas in a brief summary. But a recapitulation may be a complete restatement as well. In many pieces of classical music, the recapitulation, or recap, is the long final section of a movement, where the earlier music is restated in the main key.
CAPIT, from the Latin word for "head," caput, turns up in some important places. The head of a ship is its captain, and the capital of a state or country is where the "head of state" works. A capital letter stands head and shoulders above a lowercase letter, as well as at the head (beginning) of a sentence.🌸