(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.
Equity
Definition:
(n.) Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.
(n.) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc.
(n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(2) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
(3) Just months later, Grade popped up fronting a private-equity backed bid for Pinewood from the Rank Group.
(4) The implementation of equity policies in health have however been challenged by several trends and features of the health care system, these becoming more pronounced in the economic stagnation period after 1983.
(5) Some scientists, backed by countries like China and India, have tried to build an “equity calculator” based on capacity, responsibility and need.
(6) Entitled Jobs, Justice and Equity, the report warned that growing inequality, marginalisation and disenfranchisement are threatening Africa's prospects and undermining the foundations of its recent success.
(7) The results indicate that half or more of the interstate differences in spending for this population group are due to actuarial and efficiency factors rather than deviations from equity potential.
(8) Given the poor profitability profile of the operating companies, it is no surprise that the private-equity-owned businesses have not always needed to adopt the high leverage model to secure a tax advantage.
(9) The recently bailed-out Belgian-French bank Dexia had a capital ratio well above regulatory limits but a leverage ratio more than 60 times its equity base.
(10) Shed Media, the independent producer behind Supernanny and Waterloo Road, is reportedly in talks with private-equity firms about a buyout of the business.
(11) Effectiveness, efficiency and equity in health care are discussed in this article against the background of concerns that 'cost containment' may lead to reductions in quality of care.
(12) In his critique of a GST increase on equity grounds, Bowen noted that Morrison had opened his tenure in the treasury portfolio by declaring the Commonwealth had a spending problem, not a revenue problem – but now seemed more interested in chasing revenue than cutting spending.
(13) A joint receiver and restructuring services partner at Deloitte, Neville Kahn, added: "The senior lenders were reluctant to appoint a receiver but felt they had no choice due to the ongoing defaults, which have remained uncured for over five years, and concerns that the borrowers' lack of equity in the transaction had caused their incentives to become misaligned with the lenders'."
(14) While several banks have improved their capital ratios, including through raising fresh equity, balance sheet repair remains incomplete and fragmentation persists."
(15) Last year it launched a £404m fund-raising to pay down debt, which saw private equity house Warburg Pincus take a 15% stake.
(16) David Thebault, head of quantitative sales trading at Global Equities, Paris "The timing for such a huge rights issue is quite bad.
(17) The equity markets remained under pressure on Thursday with a fall in the oil price refocusing attention on the weakness of the global economy.
(18) Jeremy Brade, who led the transaction on behalf of Harwood Private Equity, added: "We are delighted to support the acquisition of the titles and the management team with its ambitious plans for the business".
(19) If the Coalition keeps going down the current path, its most enduring achievement will be the dismantlement of the equity-based federal funding settlement achieved under Whitlam and the dawn of a new era of evidence-less policy making.
(20) It also severely restricts their investments in high-risk hedge funds and private equity ventures.