superprofit

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noun

excess profit

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounsuperprofit (plural superprofits)

plural superprofits

  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.

    1978, Clarence J. Munford, Production Relations, Class and Black Liberation, page 142
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    Obviously, out of such enormous superprofits (since they are obtained over and above the profits which capitalists squeeze out of the workers of their 'own' country) it is possible to bribe the labour leaders[…]

    1984, Norman Etherington, Theories of imperialism: war, conquest and capital, page 138

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