📒 the most important town or city of a country or region, where the government operates from
- Cairo is the capital of Egypt.
- the state capital
- Rennes is the provincial capital of Brittany.
📒 a letter of the form and size that is used at the beginning of a sentence or a name (= A,B,C rather than a,b,c)
- Use block capitals (= separate capital letters).
- in capitals Please write in capitals.
📒 wealth or property that is owned by a business or a person and can be invested or used to start a business
- share/investment/equity capital
- He had various ideas on how to raise capital for the project.
- a guide to investing capital in new markets
📒 an amount of money that is invested or is used to start a business
- to set up a business with a starting capital of £100 000
📒 people who use their money to start businesses, considered as a group
📒 a valuable resource of a particular kind
- Education creates intellectual capital to convert into economic and social rewards.
- Immigrant children have cultural capital of their own—including their home language—which may be undervalued.
📒 the top part of a column
📒 to use a situation for your own advantage
- The opposition parties are making political capital out of the government's problems.