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How to pronounce capital in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cap, chapiter
Type of top
Type Words
Synonyms washington
Type Words
Synonyms capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase
Type of graph, graphic symbol, character, grapheme
Has types small cap, small capital
Derivation capitalize, capitalise


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.
Type Words
Synonyms working capital
Type of assets
Has types operating capital, venture capital, stock, seed money, risk capital
Derivation capitalist, capitalize, capitalise
Type Words
Synonyms great, majuscule


capital A.
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Synonyms das kapital
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Type of centre, center


the crime capital of Italy.
the drug capital of Columbia.
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Type of seat
Has types state capital, provincial capital, national capital
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a capital fellow.
a capital idea.
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our capital concern was to avoid defeat.
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Type of assets
Has types endowment, endowment fund, means, principal sum, substance, principal, corpus
Derivation capitalise, capitalist

Examples of capital

capital
He no longer believes that capital punishment can be even-handedly administered.
From the dailyherald.com
Airline officials believe all capital projects must be approved by the airlines.
From the dailyherald.com
They also had the chance to invest in the new trust through the capital raising.
From the bloomberg.com
Aid groups have been racing to keep cholera from reaching the quake-hit capital.
From the washingtontimes.com
On the venture-capital side, there are just not that many women decision makers.
From the online.wsj.com
Ellis laid off three employees from the capital projects crew Thursday, he said.
From the courier-journal.com
They became huge capital importers, fueling their economies with foreign credit.
From the cnn.com
We expect capital spending to exceed depreciation and amortization for the year.
From the foxbusiness.com
For instance, communal capital, like three women buying a florist shop together.
From the businessweek.com
More examples
  • Assets available for use in the production of further assets
  • First-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
  • Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
  • Of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
  • A seat of government
  • Uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
  • In several traditions of architecture including Classical architecture, the capital (from the Latin caput, 'head') forms the crowning member of a column or a pilaster. ...
  • In a fundamental sense, capital consists of anything that can enhance a person's power to perform economically useful work. A stone or an arrow is a capital for a caveman who can use it as a hunting instrument. A road is a capital for inhabitants of a city. ...
  • Financial capital can refer to money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or provide their services or to that sector of the economy based on its operation, i.e. retail, corporate, investment banking, etc.