(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.
Chattel
Definition:
(n.) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women to Philpott were slaves and sexual chattels, to be used for sex and to prove his virility by having his children.
(2) The judge added: "Canadian courts have moved away from the legal view that animals are merely chattels, to a recognition that they play an important role in the lives of their owners and that the loss of a pet has a significant emotional impact on its owner."
(3) She detailed his history of violence, abuse and controlling women, whom he treated as "chattels".
(4) Whether they provoke envy, indignation or aspiration, these unscientific attempts to put a pricetag on the chattels of the world's wealthiest heirs and tycoons can always be relied upon to cause a stir.
(5) Despite what Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio says, America is not “the first power in history motivated by a desire to expand freedom rather than its own territory.” But America was the first power in history to use chattel slavery to develop modern capitalism.
(6) When he did so, he surrendered the documentary chattels that accompany citizenship for most of us – a bank account, drivers’ licence, Medicare card, superannuation and a passport.
(7) When you treat women as chattels – when you mutilate them, abuse them, force them to marry early, lock them out of school or stop them entering the workforce – you fail to function as a society," said Malcolm Bruce, the committee chairman.
(8) But from European colonialism to American chattel slavery, the idea that race is an immutable characteristic is a social and historical construct – one that has real economic and mortal consequences which have already lasted for generations, but one that is a mass delusion all the same.
(9) Women were your chattels, there to look after you and your children (for that is how you describe them all).
(10) They had transmuted from being male chattels, said Veblen, to becoming lead players in driving conspicuous consumption.
(11) Black America is quite familiar with the complex fluidity of racial and ethnic identity within our families, because we live most directly with the legacy of four centuries of intergenerational chattel slavery in the United States.
(12) The father-only certificate is the irritating hangover of that long tradition of women-as-chattel.
(13) Under the old rules “chattels” had an archaic and arguably ambiguous definition, which included “carriages”, “linen” and “scientific instruments”.
(14) Under the new rules “chattels” are now defined as anything that is not monetary, business assets or “held as an investment”.
(15) Treated as chattel, many Yazidi women and girls are locked in homes to perform household tasks, and are denied adequate food and water.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michelle Alexander, author of the bestselling book The New Jim Crow, explains in the film how in the post-civil war south, petty offenses were used to recapture newly freed blacks and force them into free labor under convict lend-lease programs that functionally reconstituted chattel enslavement.
(17) Making a gift of an asset – which includes property, land, shares and "chattels" worth more than £6,000 such as antiques and valuable paintings – counts as a disposal for the purposes of capital gains tax in the same way that selling an asset does.
(18) However, as Jim pointed out, as men no longer own their wives, women are not part of men’s chattels, we now have autonomy, our own jobs and legal, independent lives, should we start questioning whether a woman automatically gives up her name.
(19) Earlier this year a senior Ikea executive warned that the appetite of western consumers to own ever more goods and chattels was probably waning.
(20) The definition of what is personal property or “chattels” also changes from 1 October.