capital
noun
uk
capital noun (CITY)
Australia's capital city is Canberra.
- In defiance of the ceasefire, rebel troops are again firing on the capital.
- Fighting around the capital has intensified in the last few hours.
- More people live in the capital than in the whole of the rest of the country.
- There is strong support here for the tough economic reforms ordained in the federal capital, Prague.
- aerotropolis
- anti-city
- anti-urban
- backwater
- boom town
- Cantabrigian
- central city
- civic
- conurbation
- dormitory town
- garden city
- multi-city
- municipal
- native place
- non-municipal
- retirement community
- retirement village
- small-town
- smoke
- urbanite
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capital noun (LETTER)
- Names always start with capitals.
- If you write your emails in capitals, it looks as though you are shouting.
- The company's trademark is written in capitals.
- If the text is in capitals, it is difficult to read.
- For some reason, she always writes in capitals.
- It's considered rude to use capital letters in an email because it looks like YOU ARE SHOUTING.
- The poet e. e. cummings wrote his name with small letters, not capital letters.
- Don't forget to put a capital letter on a proper name, like the name of a place or person.
- Every sentence should begin with a capital letter.
- Romantic, written with a capital letter, refers to a specific movement in art and literature.
capital noun (MONEY)
- The central bank has announced controls on capital outflows.
- I want to start my own business if I can raise the capital.
- We're only a small business and don't have the capital to compete with the big boys.
- They'll need to raise £1 million in venture capital if they're to get the business off the ground.
- She leaves her capital untouched in the bank and lives off the interest.
- accountancy
- accountant
- accounting
- accounts
- annualized
- auditor
- bad debt
- balance
- balance sheet
- bill
- budget
- creative accounting
- double entry bookkeeping
- false accounting
- forensic accountant
- forensic accounting
- loss
- treasurer
- unaudited
- write something down
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capital noun (COLUMN)
Grammar
capital
adjective
uk
capital adjective (LETTER)
capital adjective (CRIME)
- He was told he would be charged with rape, which in that country is a capital offence.
- He was convicted of capital murder.
- At that time, people found guilty of capital crimes died by hanging.
- The committee will study the impact of race, religion, gender, and other factors in capital cases.
- She was accused of perjury in a capital trial.
- behead
- boots on the ground idiom
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn someone to (do) something
- crucify
- death sentence
- death warrant
- decapitate
- decapitation
- electrocute
- firing squad
- gas chamber
- gibbet
- guillotine
- hang
- hanging
- stake
- the electric chair
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