Word Finder - capital

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Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).

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Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.

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He does not have enough capital to start a business.

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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.

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The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital.

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The most important city in the field specified.

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An uppercase letter.

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The uppermost part of a column.

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Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.

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Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.

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(by extension) The chief or most important thing.

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Of prime importance.

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Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.

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London and Paris are capital cities.

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Excellent.

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That is a capital idea!

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Involving punishment by death.

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Uppercase.

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One begins a sentence with a capital letter.

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Of or relating to the head.

The capital was the center of the commercial activities.

We've left the capital city for the other side of the planet.

I bought a capital one from our sutler!

Instead, you have to find small things over which to argue, like whether the capital gains tax should be raised.

Here is this capital at my feet.

But even as capital its growth was slow.

Kutuzov's action decides the fate of the capital and of your empire!

The state's capital city is a great location for a date night or a romantic evening in town on the way to a camping destination.

There is some reason, however, to suppose that before this the capital of the Monomotapa was situated much farther south, and it may plausibly be identified with the most extensive ruins as yet known, viz.

In the course of conversation he mentioned Moscow and questioned Balashev about the Russian capital, not merely as an interested traveler asks about a new city he intends to visit, but as if convinced that Balashev, as a Russian, must be flattered by his curiosity.

The present population of the island is about 4000, of which the capital has about 2000.

During the later Roman empire Rhodes was the capital of the province of the islands.

According to tradition it was founded early in the 14th century by Prince Radu Negru, succeeding Campulung as capital of Walachia.

Camden describes the wonder with which O'Neill's wild gallowglasses were seen in the English capital, with their heads bare, their long hair falling over their shoulders and clipped short in front above the eyes, and clothed in rough yellow shirts.

By nature a sybarite, he took care to have the best cook in the capital, and women had for him an irresistible attraction, though he was never married.

For administrative purposes the province is divided into eleven districts and one autonomous municipality, Laibach (pop. 36,547), the capital.

For the next eighteen years its freedom from Danish attack made Sherborne the capital of Wessex.

He made the capital of Christendom the centre of culture.

With this army, consisting of about 9000 men, he marched in 1448 from Kutna Hora to Prague, and obtained possession of the capital almost without resistance.

King Matthias conquered a large part of Moravia, and was crowned in the capital of that country, Brno(Briinn), as king of Bohemia on the 3rd of May 1469.

When the king of Persia, Shapur, captured Mazaca-Caesarea, the Cappadocian capital, Samuel refused to mourn for the 12,000 Jews who lost their livesin its defence.

It remained the capital of the Palatinate for nearly sixty years, being especially flourishing under the elector Charles Theodore.

The latter selected a position a few hundred yards to the north-east of the old city of Chung-tu or Yenking, where he founded the new city of Ta-tu ("great capital"), called by the Mongols Taidu or Daitu, but also KhanBalik; and from this time dates the use of the latter name as applied to this site.

But it is not so now; the names in ordinary use being King-cheng or King-tu, both signifying "capital."

At Ecbatana new masses of treasure were seized, but when once the necessary measures which its disposal and the occupation of the Median capital entailed were taken, Alexander continued the pursuit.

Guarantees to railway companies, &c. (in capital) 89,724,080

The capital invested in fisheries in 1902 was $9417, and the number of men employed, 145.

The " capital " punishment was generally (always in England) by burning.

The capital of the state is Recife, commonly known among foreigners as Pernambuco.

After strenuous fighting the district was cleared, and Jerusalem, taken by the sword, became the capital.

In 1680 it became the capital of a separate duchy, but in 1699 it was united with Saxe-Coburg, passing to Saxe-Meiningen in 1826.

Thus the Mahratta power was consolidated throughout nearly the whole of Maharashtra under the Brahman peshwa as virtual sovereign, with his capital at Poona, while the titular Mahratta raja or king had his court at the neighbouring city of Satara.

During the previous war the peshwa had been the protege and ally of the British; and since the war he had fallen more completely than before under British protection - British political officers and British troops being stationed at his capital.

Up to 1806 Lucera was the capital of the provinces of Basilicata and Molise.

The largest town in Galicia is Corunna (pop. 1900, 43,971) Santiago de Compostela is the ancient capital and an archiepiscopal see; Lugo, Tuy, Mondonedo and Orense are bishoprics.

Some capital snatches of verse are scattered throughout his novels, the best being "Poll put her arms akimbo" in Snarleyyow, and the "Hunter and the Maid" in Poor Jack.

They then reigned over the two dioceses of Lescar and Oloron; but their capital was Morlaas, where they had a mint which was famous throughout the middle ages.

The same infatuated passion for mining speculation which had characterized the Spanish settlers in South America now began to actuate the Portuguese; labourers and capital were drained off to the mining districts, and Brazil, which had hitherto in great measure supplied Europe with sugar, sank before the competition of the English and French.

One word from me, one movement of my hand, and that ancient capital of the Tsars would perish.

In Petersburg and in the provinces at a distance from Moscow, ladies, and gentlemen in militia uniforms, wept for Russia and its ancient capital and talked of self-sacrifice and so on; but in the army which retired beyond Moscow there was little talk or thought of Moscow, and when they caught sight of its burned ruins no one swore to be avenged on the French, but they thought about their next pay, their next quarters, of Matreshka the vivandiere, and like matters.

We have a new sutler and he has such capital things.

It's capital for us here, but what of him?

Lexington, the horse capital of the world, is a bustling city surrounded by acres of pasture land and forests.

In 1620 Buenos Aires was separated from the authority of the government established at Asuncion, and was made the seat of a government extending over Mendoza, Santa Fe, Entre Rios and Corrientes, but at the same time remained like the government of Paraguay at Asuncion, and that of the province of Tucuman, which had Cordoba as its capital, subject to the authority of the viceroyalty of Peru.

Causes of friction still remained, but they did not develop into open quarrels, for Mitre was content to leave Urquiza in his province of Entre Rios, and the other administrators (caudillos) in their several governments, a large measure of autonomy, trusting that the position and growing commercial importance of Buenos Aires would inevitably tend to make the federal capital the real centre of power of the republic. In 1865 the Argentines were forced into war with Paraguay through the overbearing attitude of the president Francisco Solano Lopez.

As a sequel to this step, in 1884 the town of La Plata was declared to be the capital of the province of Buenos Aires, and the provincial administration was moved to that place.

The capital value of land, which greatly decreased during the last twenty years of the i9th century, is estimated at 3,120,000,000, and that of stock, buildings, implements, &c., at 340,000,000.

After the rejection in 1838 of the governments proposals for the construction of seven trunk lines to be worked by the state, he obtained a concession for that piece of line on the terms that the French treasury would advance one-third of the capital at 3% if he would raise the remaining two-thirds, half in France and half in England.

In 1826-1828 the town became for a time the capital of Greece and the centre of a large commercial population (about Io,000), which has dwindled to about 4300.

The kingdom reached its highest point of importance during the reign of Solomon, but, shortly after his death, it was broken up by the rebellion of Jeroboam, who founded the separate kingdom of Israel with its capital at Shechem.