verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
build on/capitalize on a strength (= use it as a basis for further achievement )
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The organization must move forward and capitalize on its strengths.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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Both will capitalize on the beautiful assets already in place in Ventura -- the views, the ocean, the clean air.
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Change creates unmet needs by introducing new technological or economic possibilities waiting to be capitalized on .
■ VERB
hope
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Such automated systems would also be potentially vulnerable to false information from people or agents hoping to capitalize on their correlated behaviour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Be sure to capitalize the first word of every sentence.
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The store's Japanese branches are capitalized at 2.8 million yen.
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There are a number of highly capitalized industries with imported technology in the north.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A second classification was made using a supervised approach so that we could capitalize on our local knowledge of the study area.
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By 1984, the Olympics were open to track professionals, but Milburn, then 34, was too old to capitalize .
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Such automated systems would also be potentially vulnerable to false information from people or agents hoping to capitalize on their correlated behaviour.
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The first concern is determining the appropriate earnings to be capitalized. the second is determining the appropriate capitalization rate.
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The old motels capitalized on regional pride and kitsch, cheerfully twisting their neon signs into oddball shapes.
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The Profitboss capitalizes on failure, does not let it destroy him.
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They have not stood pat while other teams attempted to capitalize on their setbacks.
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You know the plant is a cultivar if part of the name is in single quotes, capitalized and not Latinized.