(n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
(n.) First in importance; chief; principal.
(n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
(n.) Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
(n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
(n.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
(n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
(a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
(a.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
(a.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
(a.) A chapter, or section, of a book.
(a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
(2) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(3) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(4) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(5) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(6) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(7) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(8) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
(9) There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank and many others, all capitalised by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.
(10) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(11) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(12) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(13) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(14) At least 10,000 civilians took refuge in UN compounds in the capital, said one UN official who asked not to be named.
(15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(16) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(17) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(18) A dam Johnson's point may need proving towards Roberto Mancini rather than Manuel Pellegrini, but Manchester City will still be aware of a Sunderland player with a cause in the Capital One Cup final.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(20) China's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.
Capitalist
Definition:
(n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
Example Sentences:
(1) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(2) The shadow chancellor is an anti-capitalist John McDonnell , the new shadow chancellor , has been branded an anti-capitalist.
(3) Capitalist society disaccumulates as new productive forces emerge within the framework of the capitalist labor market.
(4) Among the horde assembled outside City Hall was teacher Lydia Harris, 27, who urged Boris to start “putting people before profits.” Harris, a member of the anti-capitalist collective Feminist Fightback added: “Boris has got to start helping others but then he’s lied before about rape crisis centres when he promised us money that never came.” Why march for homes?
(5) Many supporters are neither leftist, nor admirers of Syriza’s anti-capitalist rhetoric, but Greeks appalled by the catastrophic effects of policies that have left 1.5 million unemployed, 3 million facing poverty and the vast majority unable to pay their bills.
(6) However, the growing offensive against the left by the pro-capitalist wing of the Labour party inevitably had a damaging impact on the LPYS.
(7) Such a response is not surprising; it is rooted in the old Marxist belief that support for nationalist parties is driven by economic insecurity, and encouraged by capitalists who would prefer ethnic over class conflict.
(8) There is agreement among most left-wing and anti-capitalist campaigners that the demonstration before the funeral will be smaller than Saturday night's party.
(9) The paper explains how the contrasting view of the body and illness provided by the holistic model can help to show how Western medicine reflects the capitalist system in which it is promoted.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ever since Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory, ‘Britain’s elites have relegated concerns about inequality below the existential question of how to restore our capitalist economy to economic health’.
(11) I would hope that a Labour party led by Ralph Miliband's son would recognise that, and be committed to ending the capitalist racket once and for all.
(12) Just before meeting the Observer , he hosted a wealthy venture capitalist seeking guidance on industry trends.
(13) In 1963 he was invited by president John F Kennedy to the White House and effectively recruited to the capitalist side in the cold war’s African battleground.
(14) San Andreas is a state of contrasts and extraordinary detail, there is always some interesting new nook to chance on, some breathtaking previously unexperienced view across the hills toward the capitalist spires of downtown.
(15) He also urged anarchists and radical anti-capitalist groups to stay away from mainstream protests by the trade unions, churches and charities being staged in Belfast on Saturday and Enniskillen on Monday.
(16) Last week, many took to the streets of San Francisco in support of Sanders, highlighting the widening gap between tech workers and their venture capitalist bosses.
(17) Drilling and polluting is what Shell does, and its corporate culture – honed in blackspots such as Nigeria and the Alberta tar sands – is still based on the old 19th-century explore-exploit-risk-reward capitalist business model that owes nothing to anything beyond the company.
(18) The 34-year-old venture capitalist is leading a group of investors in Lagos's first city railway .
(19) In the words of Andrew Shonfield: "It may be said that the intellectual and administrative preconditions for modern capitalist planning had been created, or were in course of being established".
(20) News of the second site emerged shortly after the clergyman at the centre of the dispute about anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul's broke a week's silence to defend the decision to close the cathedral.