the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation; a national policy of economic independence
the incessant product and process innovation mechanism by which new production units replace outdated ones; coined by Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 as "the essential fact about capitalism"
(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery
(noun) in philosophy: a property (as redness) considered apart from things having the property; individual instances of subjective, conscious experience