capital
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- Reino Unido//ˈkæpɪtəl//
- Reino Unido/[ˈkʰæpɪtʰəl] ~ [ˈkʰæpɪtʰl̩]/
- Reino Unido//ˈkapɪtəl//
- Reino Unido/[ˈkʰapɪtʰəl] ~ [ˈkʰapɪtʰl̩]/
- Canadá//ˈkæpɪtəl//
Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
sustantivo
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Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
Near-synonym: assets
He does not have enough capital to start a business.
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Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
Near-synonym: assets
He pointed out that it takes both labour and capital to produce goods.
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The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
The markets crashing symbolized capital’s discontent with the tax reforms passed.
He warned us darkly that capital will never be sated.
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A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital.
Lin Hsiang-ju immediately said to the king of Ch’in, “If Ta-wang wants fifteen cities from Chao, the king of Chao should also get something in return. What about giving him Hsien-yang as a gift?’ Hsien-yang was the capital of Ch’in.
Ladies of yesteryear toured world capitals in sedate linen dresses, but such priggish frumpery hardly presents Americans as the carefree, egalitarian, and sensuous people the viewers of dubbed Baywatch episodes have come to expect.
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The most important city in the field specified.
Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
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An uppercase letter.
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Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
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The chief or most important thing.
Etimología
From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective. In the fourth sense, displaced native Old English hēafodburg, equivalent to head + borough (“city”). Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”. Doublet of cattle and chattel.
adjetivo
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Of prime importance.
a capital article in religion
whatever is capital and essential in Christianity
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Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).
London and Paris are capital cities.
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anticuadoExcellent.
a capital fellow
That is a capital idea!
She was a capital housekeeper, and used invisibly to lay out the table in the neatest and handiest manner.
“He is a capital fellow,” the Englishman in London had said, “and he has got an awfully pretty wife. […]”
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Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
capital punishment; capital murder
Neither could the Legiſlature in any thing more conſult the Publick Good, than by providing ſome effectual Remedy againſt this Evil, which in ſeveral Caſes deſerves greater Puniſhment than many Crimes that are capital among us.
to put to death a capital offender
Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
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Uppercase.
One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
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Uppercase. used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
You're a genius with a capital G!
He's dead with a capital D!
In recent years, much has been made of the lack of new heavyweight male star power in mainstream Hollywood. Talented performers may be everywhere, but Movie Stars, capital M, capital S, are something else.
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Of or relating to the head.
Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.
interjección
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anticuadoused as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.
That's an amazing idea! Capital!
"Capital! And I shall soon get a bonus."
sustantivo
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The uppermost part of a column.
But a great wonder of this chamber, and a marvel to behold, was how the capital of every one of the four-and-twenty pillars was hewn from a single precious stone, carved by the hand of some sculptor of long ago into the living form of a monster: […]
Etimología
From Middle English capitale, partly from Old French capital and partly from Late Latin capitellum (“capital or chapiter of a column”), a form of Latin capitulum (“head-like object or structure; chapter”) (whence English capitulum, chapter, and the synonym chapiter (“uppermost part of a column”)), from caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capitellum, and caudillo.
Formas
- plural
- capitals
capital · Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
Capital · The Capital Airlines, which operated as a trunk carrier in…capitalism · A socio-economic system based on private ownership of…capitalist · Of, or pertaining to, capitalism.