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CAPITALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capitalize mean? 

CAPITALIZE (verb)
  The verb CAPITALIZE has 6 senses:

1. draw advantages fromplay

2. supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lendersplay

3. write in capital lettersplay

4. compute the present value of a business or an incomeplay

5. consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expensesplay

6. convert (a company's reserve funds) into capitalplay

  Familiarity information: CAPITALIZE used as a verb is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAPITALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they capitalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it capitalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: capitalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: capitalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: capitalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw advantages from

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize; take advantage

Context example:

she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover

Hypernyms (to "capitalize" is one way to...):

benefit; gain; profit (derive a benefit from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

capitalization (the act of capitalizing on an opportunity)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Hypernyms (to "capitalize" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


Sense 3

Meaning:

Write in capital letters

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Hypernyms (to "capitalize" is one way to...):

write (mark or trace on a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

capital (one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis)

capitalization (writing in capital letters)


Sense 4

Meaning:

Compute the present value of a business or an income

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Hypernyms (to "capitalize" is one way to...):

calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out (make a mathematical calculation or computation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "capitalize"):

overcapitalise; overcapitalize (estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

capital (assets available for use in the production of further assets)

capitalization (an estimation of the value of a business)


Sense 5

Meaning:

Consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Hypernyms (to "capitalize" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


Sense 6

Meaning:

Convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Hypernyms (to "capitalize" is one way to...):

change; commute; convert; exchange (exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "capitalize"):

overcapitalise; overcapitalize (capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

capital (assets available for use in the production of further assets)


 Context examples 


Meanwhile, other events popped up seeking to capitalize on the notoriety of the Storm Area 51 event.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)



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