capital
assets available for use in the production of further assets
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,941 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,262 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- assets available for use in the production of further assets also: 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 also: capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, 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 Italythe drug capital of Columbia
- the federal government of the United States also: Washington
capital in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The future is so uncertain, that no one wishes to venture their capital.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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A ruffian like this Jones will make all the capital he can out of that purse.
Plays : First Series · John Galsworthy · Chapter 1
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So that the nephew could only enjoy the interest, and had no control over the capital.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1
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There was a mixture of many strains in the capital of Ohio, as there was throughout the State.
My First Visit to New England, and Others · William Dean Howells · Chapter 1
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I didn't have any capital except a rich father, but I suppose they thought that was the same thing.
The Motormaniacs · Lloyd Osbourne · Chapter 1