English > capital: 11 senses > noun 1, possessionMeaning | assets available for use in the production of further assets. |
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Synonym | working capital |
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Members | liquid assets, current assets, quick assets | assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash) |
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Narrower | operating capital | Capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements |
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seed money | Capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise / enterprise |
stock | The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity) |
venture capital, risk capital | wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises / enterprises |
Broader | assets | Anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company |
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Spanish | capital de trabajo, capital, fondo de maniobra, fondo de rotación |
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Catalan | capital, fons de maniobra |
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Nouns | capitalist | a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) |
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Verbs | capitalise | consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses |
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capitalise | supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders |
capitalize, capitalise | convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital |
capitalize, capitalise | compute the present value of a business or an income |
English > capital: 11 senses > noun 4, communicationMeaning | One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis. |
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Examples | - "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases
- capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
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Synonyms | capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule |
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Narrower | small capital, small cap | A character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters |
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Broader | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol | A written symbol that is used to represent speech |
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Opposite | small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule | The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case |
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Spanish | caja alta, letra mayúscula, mayúscula |
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Catalan | caixa alta, lletra majúscula, majúscula |
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Adjectives | capital | uppercase |
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Verbs | capitalize, capitalise | write in capital letters |
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