anticapital

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ capital

Adjective[edit]

anticapital (not comparable)

  1. Tending to erode the preservation of capital.
    • 1975, United States. Congress. House. Ways and Means Committee, Tax Reform (Administration and Public Witnesses), Public Hearings... (page 595)
      This illusion has to be an underlying factor in the anticapital bias of the tax law.
    • 2020, Kitty Calavita, U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1924:
      Disguising selections refers to those actions that give the appearance of class neutrality while excluding anticapital solutions (this corresponds roughly to symbolic action).