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precapitalism en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + capitalism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Primitive systems of trade before the full development of capitalism.
    • The state farm and its administration operated under a model of paternalism that had its roots in the Soviet belief that northern indigenous peoples were like naive children in the primitive state of precapitalism. 2000, Anna M. Kerttula, Antler on the Sea, page 82: