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单词 capital
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capitalnoun

uk/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/us/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl/

capital noun (CITY)

A2 [ C ] a city that is the centre of government of a country or smaller political area:

Australia's capital city is Canberra.

[ C ] the most important place for a particular business or activity:

London used to be the financial capital of the world.

More examples

  • In defiance of the ceasefire, rebel troops are again firing on the capital.
  • Fighting around the capital has intensified in the last few hours.
  • More people live in the capital than in the whole of the rest of the country.
  • There is strong support here for the tough economic reforms ordained in the federal capital, Prague.

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Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)

  • aerotropolis
  • backwater
  • bedroom community
  • Cantabrigian
  • conurbation
  • county borough
  • dormitory town
  • ghost town
  • Greater
  • hill station
  • hometown
  • megacity
  • metropolis
  • one-horse town
  • port
  • settlement
  • small-town
  • spa
  • town
  • urbanite

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Places and locations

capital noun (LETTER)

A2 [ C ] also capital letter a letter of the alphabet in the form and larger size that is used at the beginning of sentences and names:

Please print your name in capitals.
A proper noun should start with a capital.

More examples

  • Names always start with capitals.
  • If you write your emails in capitals, it looks as though you are shouting.
  • The company's trademark is written in capitals.
  • If the text is in capitals, it is difficult to read.
  • For some reason, she always writes in capitals.
  • It's considered rude to use capital letters in an email because it looks like YOU ARE SHOUTING.
  • The poet e. e. cummings wrote his name with small letters, not capital letters.
  • Don't forget to put a capital letter on a proper name, like the name of a place or person.
  • Every sentence should begin with a capital letter.
  • Romantic, written with a capital letter, refers to a specific movement in art and literature.

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Lettering & alphabets

  • ABC
  • camel case
  • copperplate
  • cuneiform
  • cursive
  • Cyrillic
  • hand-lettered
  • hieroglyph
  • ideogram
  • incapping
  • initial
  • kanji
  • letter
  • notation
  • penmanship
  • phonetic
  • rune
  • script
  • stenography
  • upper case

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capital noun (MONEY)

[ U ] money and possessions, especially a large amount of money used for producing more wealth or for starting a new business:

She leaves her capital untouched in the bank and lives off the interest.
We put $20,000 capital into the business, but we're unlikely to see any return for a few years.

More examples

  • The central bank has announced controls on capital outflows.
  • I want to start my own business if I can raise the capital.
  • We're only a small business and don't have the capital to compete with the big boys.
  • They'll need to raise £1 million in venture capital if they're to get the business off the ground.
  • She leaves her capital untouched in the bank and lives off the interest.

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Accounting

  • accountancy
  • accountant
  • accounting
  • accounts
  • annualized
  • arrears
  • auditor
  • balance
  • bill
  • budget
  • capital gains
  • costing
  • double entry bookkeeping
  • false accounting
  • fraudulent accounting
  • FRS
  • GAAP
  • housekeeping
  • loss
  • square

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Interest & capital
Amounts of money

capital noun (COLUMN)

[ C ] specialized architecture the top part of a column

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Parts of buildings: arches, columns & beams

  • arch
  • architrave
  • archway
  • beam
  • colonnade
  • column
  • corbel
  • Corinthian
  • Doric
  • Ionic
  • joist
  • keystone
  • pedestal
  • pillar
  • plinth
  • portico
  • truss
  • vault
  • vaulted
  • vaulting

Idiom(s)

make capital out of sth

capitaladjective

uk/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/us/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl/

capital adjective (LETTER)

(of a letter of the alphabet) in the form and larger size that is used at the beginning of sentences and names:

Do you write "calvinist" with a capital "C" or not?

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Punctuation

  • ampersand
  • asterisk
  • capitalize
  • caron
  • cedilla
  • dash
  • ditto
  • grave (accent)
  • guillemet
  • hyphen
  • hyphenate
  • parentheses
  • period
  • punctuation
  • punctuation mark
  • question mark
  • quotation marks
  • stroke
  • tilde
  • upper case

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capital adjective (DEATH)

capital crime/offence

a crime that can be punished by death:

In some countries, importing drugs is a capital offence.

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Death penalties

  • behead
  • burn
  • capital punishment
  • chair
  • condemn
  • condemn sb to (do) sth
  • condemned
  • decapitate
  • execute
  • execution
  • executioner
  • firing squad
  • gallows
  • hanging
  • hangman
  • hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
  • noose
  • scaffold
  • stake
  • string

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capital adjective (EXCELLENT)

UK old-fashioned very good or excellent:

That's a capital idea!

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Extremely good

  • admirable
  • amazing
  • ask for sb/sth
  • award-winning
  • awesome
  • bowl
  • brilliant
  • incomparable
  • incredible
  • inspired
  • irreplaceable
  • life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
  • outstanding
  • parallel
  • sterling
  • superb
  • superlatively
  • supremacy
  • supreme
  • terrific

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Idiom(s)

with a capital A, B, etc.

capitalnoun

uk/ˈkæpɪtəl/us

[ U ] FINANCE, ECONOMICS money that is used for investment or for starting a business:

attract/borrow/raise capital Low-tax policies are used by some countries to attract capital.
invest/inject capital The UK parent company decided not to inject further capital into the failing business.
foreign/private capital
Investors are finding that there has been a satisfactory return on capital.

[ U ] ACCOUNTING, FINANCE the total amount of money and property that an individual or company owns:

tie up/release capital Most of our capital is tied up in property.

[ U ] FINANCE, ECONOMICS money that is lent or borrowed and will have to be paid back:

Our mortgage is interest-only, so we're not paying off any of the capital.

[ U ] ECONOMICS, POLITICS people who own the businesses, land, industries, and other forms of wealth in society, considered as a group:

There's a real conflict arising between the demands of capital and labour.

[ C ] also capital city the city where a country or state has its central government:

What's the capital of China?

See also

authorized share capital
called-up share capital
circulating capital
core capital
cost of capital
customer capital
debt capital
equity capital
fixed capital
flight capital
human capital
intellectual capital
knowledge capital
loan capital
nominal capital
operating capital
ordinary capital
paid-in capital
preference capital
preferred capital
return on capital
risk capital
share capital
social capital
Tier 2 capital
uncalled capital
venture capital
working capital
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