单词 | capital flight |
释义 | > as lemmascapital flight capital flight n. [probably after German Kapitalflucht (1858 or earlier)] Finance the movement of capital out of a region of economic instability; an instance of this; cf. flight n.2 1f. ΚΠ 1921 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. 1/5 A great new ‘capital flight’, precipitated by the Government's confiscatory tax plans, is driving Germans to convert their paper marks into dollars. 1991 South Aug. 28/3 During the 1980s, with 80% of the people of Latin America in acute poverty, these countries lost $296bn in debt servicing and another US$150bn in capital flight. 2003 D. L. Scott Wall St. Words (ed. 3) 50 Capital flight results in further deterioration of a currency's exchange rate. < as lemmas |
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