CAPITALIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capitalization mean? 

• CAPITALIZATION (noun)
  The noun CAPITALIZATION has 4 senses:

1. writing in capital letters

2. an estimation of the value of a business

3. the act of capitalizing on an opportunity

4. the sale of capital stock

  Familiarity information: CAPITALIZATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITALIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Writing in capital letters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

capitalisation; capitalization

Hypernyms ("capitalization" is a kind of...):

writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)

Derivation:

capitalize (write in capital letters)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An estimation of the value of a business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

capitalisation; capitalization

Hypernyms ("capitalization" is a kind of...):

estimate; estimation (a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capitalization"):

market capitalisation; market capitalization (an estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share)

Derivation:

capitalize (compute the present value of a business or an income)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of capitalizing on an opportunity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

capitalisation; capitalization

Hypernyms ("capitalization" is a kind of...):

development; exploitation (the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful)

Derivation:

capitalize (draw advantages from)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The sale of capital stock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

capitalisation; capitalization

Hypernyms ("capitalization" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capitalization"):

overcapitalisation; overcapitalization ((business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants))