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adj
Relating to capitalist roaders or their alleged political beliefs, capitalist roadism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, historical, not-comparable, rare
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History
By analogy with capitalist roadism, itself formed by analogy with capitalist roader, a calque of Chinese 走資派 /走资派 (zǒuzīpài, literally “one who takes the capitalist road”). By surface analysis, capitalist + road (figurative) + -ist (adjectival suffix).
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