Word Finder - capitalized

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In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.

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In German, all nouns are capitalized.

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To contribute or acquire capital (money or other resources) for.

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Some states require proof that a new venture is properly capitalized before the state will issue a certificate of incorporation.

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To convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.

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If we obtain a loan using the business as collateral, the effect will be to capitalize our next ten years of income, giving us cash today that we can use to buy out our competitor.

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To treat as capital, not as an expense.

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To profit or to obtain an advantage.

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The home team took several shots on goal but was unable to capitalize until late in the game.

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(followed by on) To seize, as an opportunity; to obtain a benefit; to invest on something profitable.

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The home team appeared to have the advantage throughout the game, and finally capitalized on their opponents' weakness with just two minutes remaining, scoring several points in quick succession.

The line was capitalized at $46,000,000 and has paid a good profit on the investment.

The liabilities of the fund (capitalized) amounted to 10,668,105, of which monastic pensions represented a rapidly diminishing sum of 2,564,930.

Viduka began the reply when he capitalized on a poor attempted clearance by Ramon Vega to score from close range in the 52nd minute.

Assets acquired under a finance lease are capitalized in the balance sheet.

The letter was capitalized on the premise that it was a proper noun.

A company capitalized at £ 30,000 is clearly more substantial than one with a nominal £ 3 share capital.

In manuscript submissions, we prefer that specific ethnicities are capitalized but not hyphenated.

A long ball from the back held up in the wind and caused a defensive mix-up which Mitch Patten capitalized on to equalize.

This, the most pretentious of all the state banks of the period, was capitalized at $15,500,000.

The first was the movie Dirty Dancing, which capitalized not only on Swayze's acting ability, but also on his excellent dancing skills.

Count the number of capitalized "YES" or "NO" answers and add up your score.

Mattel capitalized on the popularity of the toy by adding Fashion Polly!, which used the same characters as the original dolls but was much larger in size.

Several major retailers have capitalized on the wide-spread success by offering special holiday editions.

Low- and high-end handbag designers alike have capitalized on the rage, breathing new life into an organic material once mainly associated with picnic baskets.

Science fiction stories and movies brought robots into the mainstream, and toy makers capitalized on kids' fascination with robots.

Kyle capitalized on her refreshed fame and appeared in television commercials for an online retailer.

The protesters capitalized on the fact that Fridays were a normal day for Egyptians to gather, and they organized the protests as Facebook Events held on Fridays.

The crown paid the landlord in obligations representing the capitalized rent, and the peasants had to pay the crown, for forty-nine years, 6% interest on this capital.

But the Bagdad Railway Company' (the share capital of which is £600,000 half paid up), naturally anxious to earn the whole of the capitalized subvention, completed the construction of the entire 200 kilometres.

As it's become more and more accepted, it still retains some of the air of "forbidden" love, and some women have capitalized on that to draw attention.

Under the budgetary heading " Public Debt " is included, as it should be, all expenditure in connexion not only with the public debt proper, but also with advances from banks and others, railway guarantees, an account of which will also be found below, and all capitalized liabilities, as far as known, contracted by the state.

Since there are 8760 hours in a year, if such an instrument were connected continuously to the circuit it would take up energy equal to 263,000 watt-hours, or 260 Board of Trade units per annum, If the cost of production of this energy was only one penny per unit, the working expenses of keeping such a voltmeter in connexion with a circuit would therefore be more than £i per annum, representing a capitalized value of, say, £io.

This arrangement represents a potential economy of some £2,000,000 capital for Hungary as compared with the original Austrian demand that the Hungarian contribution to the service of the old Austrian debt be capitalized at 4.2%.