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| 1. | [ noun ] (business) assets available for use in the production of further assets | |
| Synonyms: | working_capital | |
| Related terms: | asset assets stock operating_capital venture_capital seed_money liquid_asset liquid_assets capitalize capitalize capitalize | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (government) a seat of government | |
| Related terms: | seat provincial_capital Edinburgh state_capital George_Town Kishinev Jerevan Cardiff Minsk Tallinn Riga Vilnius Kiev Belfast national_capital Baku Tbilisi Alma-Ata Biskek Dusanbe Ashkhabad Tashkent bridgetown bratislava sucre capital_of_armenia akmola bishkek Camelot | |
| 3. | [ noun ] (economics) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | |
| Related terms: | material_resource assets principal endowment means capitalize | |
| 4. | [ noun ] one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in proper names and sometimes for emphasis; (printers once kept type for capitals and small letters in separate cases; capitals were in the upper half and became known as upper-case letters) | |
| Synonyms: | upper-case_letter capital_letter majuscule upper_case | |
| Related terms: | small_letter character small_capital | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] punishable by death | |
| Examples: | "a capital offense" |
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| Related terms: | serious | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] (British) first-rate | |
| Examples: | "a capital fellow" "a capital idea" |
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| Related terms: | UK superior | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] of primary important | |
| Examples: | "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" |
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| Related terms: | primary | |
| 8. | [ noun ] (writing) a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories | |
| Synonyms: | das_kapital | |
| Related terms: | book | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] uppercase | |
| Synonyms: | majuscule great | |
| Examples: | "capital A" "great A" "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" |
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| Related terms: | uppercase | |
| 10. | [ noun ] (architecture) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | |
| Synonyms: | cap chapiter | |
| Related terms: | top column | |
| Similar spelling: |
capitalize capitalist capitalism capitalise Capitol capitulum capitular capitulate capitulary |
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