The subscribed capital of a trading company, or the public debt of a nation, municipal corporation, or the like, regarded as transferable property…

Finance. An act or instance of investing money or capital in property, stocks, bonds, etc.; an amount of money so invested. Also: a (form or type…

Finance. The action of locking up capital in assets that cannot be realized or sold on in the short term; the state of capital being unrealizable…

Money bet or invested by those with expert or inside knowledge; (also) such people collectively. Also figurative.

Investment of income or profit in the enterprise which produces it; the capital so invested.

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