(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Capital is a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money. (BUSINESS)
Companies are having difficulty in raising ~...
A large amount of ~ is invested in all these branches.
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2.
You can use ~ to refer to buildings or machinery which are necessary to produce goods or to make companies more efficient, but which do not make money directly. (BUSINESS)
...~ equipment that could have served to increase production.
...~ investment.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N n
3.
Capital is the part of an amount of money borrowed or invested which does not include interest. (BUSINESS)
With a conventional repayment mortgage, the repayments consist of both ~ and interest.
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4.
The ~ of a country is the city or town where its government or parliament meets.
...Kathmandu, the ~ of Nepal.
N-COUNT: usu the N in sing, oft N of n
5.
If a place is the ~ of a particular industry or activity, it is the place that is most famous for it, because it happens in that place more than anywhere else.
Colmar has long been considered the ~ of the wine trade.
...New York, the fashion ~ of the world.
N-COUNT: usu the N in sing, with supp
6.
Capitals or ~ letters are written or printed letters in the form which is used at the beginning of sentences or names. ‘T’, ‘B’, and ‘F’ are ~s.
The name and address are written in ~s.
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7.
A ~ offence is one that is so serious that the person who commits it can be punished by death.
Espionage is a ~ offence in this country.
...Americans wrongly convicted of ~ crimes.
ADJ: ADJ n
8.
see also working ~
9.
If you say that someone is making ~ out of a situation, you disapprove of the way they are gaining an advantage for themselves through other people’s efforts or bad luck. (FORMAL)
He rebuked the President for trying to make political ~ out of the hostage situation.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n disapproval