Superprofit

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    excess profit

    "Our next step will be to understand how the basic economic law of capitalism works under imperialism, and how monopoly superprofits are extracted from imperialism's "third world" periphery."

Example

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"Our next step will be to understand how the basic economic law of capitalism works under imperialism, and how monopoly superprofits are extracted from imperialism's "third world" periphery."

Etymology

From super- + profit.

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