Capital - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈkæpɪtl|  American pronunciation of the word capital
Brit.  |ˈkæpɪt(ə)l|  British pronunciation of the word capital

noun

- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- a seat of government
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis (syn: majuscule)
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
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
the crime capital of Italy
the drug capital of Columbia
- the federal government of the United States
- a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature (syn: cap, chapiter)

adjective

- first-rate
a capital fellow
a capital idea
- of primary importance
our capital concern was to avoid defeat
- uppercase (syn: great, majuscule)
capital A

Extra examples

His handwritten capital S's look a lot like lowercase s's.

Homicide that occurs during the course of an attempted kidnapping is a capital crime in some states.

Few competent local lawyers are willing to take on capital defendants for $20 an hour ...

Capital letter is used in all proper names

He was a capital companion.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States

The government is eager to attract foreign capital.

Hollywood is the capital of the movie industry.

Eurobonds provide an important capital source for multinational companies and foreign governments.

The Opposition made a lot of capital out of the Minister's mistake on TV.

Washington is the capital of the USA.

The morality of capital punishment is a frequent subject of debate.

It is common practice among my friends to not use capital letters in e-mail.

...revolutionary forces that were soundly defeated before reaching the capital...

The protest in May was the climax of a series of demonstrations in the nation's capital.

Word forms

noun
singular: capital
plural: capitals
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