capital
Từ điển Collocation
capital noun
1 money used to start a business, etc.
ADJ. fixed, starting | working | foreign, private | equity, investment, share | risk, venture
VERB + CAPITAL have We don't have enough capital to buy new premises. | accumulate, attract, borrow, generate, raise He had various ideas on how to raise capital for the project. | invest, provide, put (up), sink The company has put a lot of capital into the project. We can't expect the government to put up the capital. He sank vast amounts of capital in the venture. | free up, release, unlock | tie up Our capital is all tied up in property.
CAPITAL + NOUN assets, goods, resources, stock | costs, expenditure, investment, outlay, repayment, spending | accumulation, growth | account | grant | project investment in major capital projects | gain, loss | flows, inflow, movement, outflow, receipt | value the capital value of the property | market
PHRASES capital intensive capital intensive industries | an injection of capital Inner city areas require a large injection of capital. | a return on your capital Investors want an immediate return on their capital. > Special page at BUSINESS
2 city
ADJ. great, major The department store has branches in all major capitals. | British, Japanese, etc. | foreign | provincial, regional, state | cultural, financial, etc.
PREP. in a/the ~ the fast pace of life in the capital | ~ of
PHRASES … capital of the world Las Vegas is the gambling capital of the world.
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- assets available for use in the production of further assets; working capital
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- a seat of government
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule
printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
the crime capital of Italy
the drug capital of Columbia
- the federal government of the United States; Capital, Washington
- a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories; Das Kapital, Capital
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature; chapiter, cap
Bloomberg Financial Glossary
资本|资金资本;资金
Money invested in a firm.
Investopedia Financial Terms
Capital
1. Financial assets or the financial value of assets, such as cash.
2. The factories, machinery and equipment owned by a business.
Investopedia Says:
Capital is an extremely vague term and its specific definition depends on the context in which it is used. In general, it refers to financial resources available for use.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
capitals
syn.: chief city important leading money stock top
ant.: interest labor trivial