ca pillary action noun [U] (technical vfc -i#) the force that makes a liquid move up a narrow tube ;

%m\h (mmj)

Capital tHr /'kaepitl/ noun, adj. mnoun

► CITY 1 (also .capital 'city) [C] the most important

town or city of a country, usually where the central government operates from #; tH £l>: Cairo is the

capital of Egypt. 0 (figurative) Paris,

the fashion capital of the world E M Jf- W ^

ZU

► MONEY Z t-lc 2 [sing] a large amount of money that is

invested or is used to start a business feif]

^ ^ : to set up a business with a starting capital of

£100000 VJ, 10 3 [U]

wealth or property that is owned by a business or a person MS ; Mf¹: capital assets 0 capital

expenditure (= money that an organization spends on buildings, equipment, etc.) 4 [uj (technical ^i^-)

people who use their money to start businesses, considered as a group : capital and labour

m

► LETTER “f tf 5 (also .capital letter) [C] a letter of the form and size that is used at the beginning of a sentence or a name (= A,B,C rather than a,b,c)

fif _: Use block capitals (= separate capital letters).

^^ # c 0 Please write in capitals/in capital letters.

► ARCHITECTURE ;^! '[ 6 the top part of a column t±M; if — picture e> arch

fR71 make capital (out) of sth to use a situation for your own advantage

The opposition parties are making political capital out of the government’s problems.

m adj.

► PUNISHMENT ?lj 1 [only before noun] involving punishment by death ^EffiJ61): a capital offence fc'ff-

► LETTER r If 2 [only before noun] (of letters of the alphabet il^#) having the form and size used at the beginning of a sentence or a name 6!): English is written with a capital ‘E\ * English — is] 4¹ ^ Ef E X

— compare lower case

► EXCELLENT jjtfy 3 (old-fashioned, BrE) excellent WHEW-

mm

ITSTi^l with a capital A, B, etc. used to emphasize that a word has a stronger meaning than usual in a particular situation ( gift) XlEitk, ife, ^ Jfr ^ tP Mii: He was romantic with a capital R. #,

.capital 'gains noun [pi] profits that you make from selling sth, especially property (

61) ) : to pay capital gains tax

'capital goods noun [pi.] (business ]f§) goods such as factory machines that are used for producing other goods )

— compare consumer goods .capital-in'tensive adj. (of a business, an industry, etc. dk ik , fj ik ^p) needing large amounts of money in order to operate well ^ 3? It 61) — compare labour- intensive

capital-ism /'kaepitelizam/ noun [U] an economic system in which a country’s businesses and industry are controlled and run for profit by private owners rather than by the government —compare

SOCIALISM

cap it al ist /'kaepitalist/ noun, adj. u noun 1 a person who supports capitalism Z X # 2 a person who owns or controls a lot of wealth and uses it to produce more wealth u adj. (also less frequent cap it al istic /.kaepita'listik/) based on the principles of capitalism ^ ± X 61): a

capitalist society/system/economy /

cap ital ize (BrE also -ise) /‘kaepitalaiz/ verb [VN] 1 to write or print a letter of the alphabet as a capital; to begin a word with a capital letter ^

( S&epJ&iJ ) ; Jfi-f 2 (business j£j) to sell