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