capital meaning
- Assets available for use in the production of further assets
- working capital - 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
"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"
- capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule - A centre that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
"the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia" - The upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- chapiter, cap
- [Brit] First-rate
"a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" - Of primary importance
"our capital concern was to avoid defeat" - Uppercase
"capital A"
- great, majuscule
- The federal government of the United States
- Washington - A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
- Das Kapital
Sounds like: capitol
Derived forms: capitals
See also: capitalise [Brit], capitalist, capitalize, primary, superior, uppercase
Type of: assets, book, center [US], centre [Brit, Cdn], character, federal government, grapheme, graphic symbol, seat, top
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[American slang]
n. cash; money.
• I'm a little short of capital right now.
• Do you think I could borrow a little capital until payday?
[Architecture]
The topmost structural member of a column, pilaster, anta, or the like, often decorated; may support an architrave, 1 or may be surmounted by an impost. See illustrations under the various orders; also see angle capital, basket capital, bracket capital, bud capital, Byzantine capital (illustrated under Byzantine architecture), Composite capital, Corinthian capital, corner capital, cushion capital, Doric capital, Hathoric capital, protomaic capital, Ionic capital, lotus capital, palm capital, scalloped capital, water-leaf capital.
capital: nomenclature
capitals
[Business]
noun
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, AUTHORIZED SHARE CAPITAL, CALLED-UP CAPITAL, CIRCULATING CAPITAL, CORE CAPITAL, CUSTOMER CAPITAL, DEBT CAPITAL, EMOTIONAL CAPITAL, FIXED CAPITAL, FLIGHT CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL, INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, INVESTED CAPITAL, ISSUED CAPITAL, KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL, LOAN CAPITAL, NOMINAL CAPITAL, ORDINARY CAPITAL, PAID-UP CAPITAL, PHYSICAL CAPITAL, REGISTERED CAPITAL, RETURN ON CAPITAL, RETURN ON INVESTED CAPITAL, RISK CAPITAL, SHARE CAPITAL, SOCIAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL OVERHEAD CAPITAL, SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL, UNCALLED CAPITAL, UNISSUED CAPITAL, VENTURE CAPITAL, WORKING CAPITAL
1 (Accounting ; Finance ) [U]
the total value of the land, buildings, machinery, shares in other companies, etc. (assets) that a company owns, minus its debts:
Our capital is all tied up in property (= it can not easily be turned into money).
The trust sold its shareholdings in other companies to release capital.
❖ to free up/release/tie up/unlock capital
2 (Finance ) [U; sing.]
an amount of money that is invested in or is used to start a business:
They help start-up companies in business planning and raising capital.
The company badly need an injection of capital.
They set up the business with a starting capital of €100 000.
⇨ LOAN CAPITAL, SHARE CAPITAL
❖ to attract/borrow/generate/have/raise capital
◆ to put up/provide capital
◆ initial/starting/start-up capital
◆ foreign/private capital
3 (Finance ) [U]
money that is lent or borrowed on which interest is paid:
Investors want an immediate return on their capital.
❖ to borrow/invest/lend capital
◆ foreign/private capital
4 (Economics ) [U]
something of value that a company or an organization has, such as machinery or money, that can be used to produce wealth:
Raw materials, land, labour and capital are used to produce finished goods.
[Economics]
1) The total value of the assets of a person less liabilities.
2) The amount of the proprietors' interests in the assets of an organization, less its liabilities.
3) The money contributed by the proprietors to an organization to enable it to function; thus share capital is the amount provided by way of shares and the loan capital is the amount provided by way of loans. However, the capital of the proprietors of companies not only consists of the share and loan capital, it also includes retained profit, which accrues to the holders of the ordinary shares.
See also:
4) The market value of a firm's equity and long-term debt. 5) In economic theory, the man-made factor of production, usually either machinery and plant (physical capital) or money (financial capital). However, the concept can be applied to a variety of other assets (e.g. human capital).
- authorized capital (nominal capital): [Law]The total val ...
- accumulation, capital: [Economics]See cap ...
- adequacy, capital: [Economics]See cap ...
Examples
More: Next- you know treason is a capital offence.
- he wrote first in large clumsy capitals.
- there is mention of capital penalties for rape.
- the capital sunk in it is fabulous in amount.
- she's such a capital one for catching mice.
