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    capital - Dictionary definition and meaning for word capital

    Definition
    (noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets
    Synonyms : working capital
    Definition
    (noun) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value Definition
    (noun) a seat of government Definition
    (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
    Example Sentence
    • 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
    Definition
    (noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
    Example Sentence
    • the crime capital of Italy
    • the drug capital of Columbia
    Definition
    (noun) the federal government of the United States
    Synonyms : washington
    Definition
    (noun) a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
    Synonyms : das kapital
    Definition
    (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
    Synonyms : cap , chapiter
    Definition
    (adj) first-rate
    Example Sentence
    • a capital fellow
    • a capital idea
    Definition
    (adj) of primary importance
    Example Sentence
    • our capital concern was to avoid defeat
    Definition
    (adj) uppercase
    Synonyms : great , majuscule
    Example Sentence
    • capital A
    • great A
    • many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script

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