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capital

US: /ˈkæpətəɫ/, /ˈkæpɪtəɫ/

UK: /kˈæpɪtə‍l/

English Vietnamese dictionary

capital /'kæpitl/

danh từ
- thủ đô, thủ phủ
- chữ viết hoa
  - to write one's name in capital: viết tên bằng chữ hoa
- tiền vốn, tư bản
  - floating (working) capital: vốn luân chuyển
  - fixed capital: tư bản bất biến
- (kiến trúc) đầu cột
- to make capital out of
  - kiếm lợi ở, kiếm chác ở, lợi dụng

tính từ
- quan hệ đến sinh mạng; tử hình
  - capital offence: tội tử hình
- chính, ở đầu, ở trên đầu, ở trên hết
  - capital city: thủ đô
- chủ yếu, cốt yếu, cơ bản, lớn
  - of capital inmportance: có tầm quan trọng lớn
  - capital letter: chữ hoa
- tuyệt diệu, thượng hạng, ưu tú, xuất sắc, rất hay
  - a capital speach: bài nói rất hay
  - what a capital idea!: ý kiến mới tuyệt diệu làm sao!
- vô cùng tai hại
  - a capital error: một sự lầm lẫn vô cùng tai hại
- capital constructions
  - xây dựng cơ bản
- capital goods
  - tư liệu sản xuất

Advanced English dictionary

noun, adjective
+ noun
city
1 (also capital city) [C] the most important town or city of a country, usually where the central government operates from: Cairo is the capital of Egypt. + Troops are stationed in and around the capital. + a tour of six European capital cities + (figurative) Paris, the fashion capital of the world
money
2 [sing.] a large amount of money that is invested or is used to start a business: to set up a business with a starting capital of £100 000
3 [U] wealth or property that is owned by a business or a person: capital assets + capital expenditure (= money that an organization spends on buildings, equipment, etc.)
4 [U] (technical) people who use their money to start businesses, considered as a group: capital and labour
letter
5 (also capital letter) [C] a letter of the form and size that is used at the beginning of a sentence or a name (= A,B,C rather than a,b,c): Use block capitals (= separate capital letters). + Please write in capitals / in capital letters.
architecture
6 the top part of a column
Idioms: make capital (out) of sth to use a situation for your own advantage: The opposition parties are all making political capital out of the disagreements within the government.
+ adjective
punishment
1 [only before noun] involving punishment by death: a capital offence
letter
2 [only before noun] (of letters of the alphabet) having the form and size used at the beginning of a sentence or a name: English is written with a capital 'E'.
Compare: LOWER CASE
excellent
3 (old-fashioned, BrE) excellent
Idioms: with a capital A, B, etc. used to emphasize that a word has a stronger meaning than usual in a particular situation: He was romantic with a capital R.

Thesaurus dictionary

1 head, top, crown, cap:

The column was surmounted by a finely carved capital.

2 seat (of government):

Winnipeg is the capital of Manitoba.

3 money, assets, funds, finance(s), cash, wherewithal; wealth, means, property, resources, savings, principal:

My capital is invested in land at the moment.

4 majuscule, upper case, large letter, initial, Colloq cap:

The chapter titles should be set in capitals.

adj.

5 chief, main, major, important, cardinal, central, principal, prime, primary, paramount, pre-eminent, foremost, leading:

Our capital responsibility is to ensure the passengers' safety.

6 first-class, first-rate, excellent, superior, matchless, peerless, choice, select, outstanding, fine, superb, splendid, marvellous, extraordinary, Colloq smashing, great, super, Brit brill, Old-fashioned topping, top-hole, ripping, ripsnorting:

Eating out tonight was a capital idea.

Collocation dictionary

¹ money used to start a business, etc.

ADJ.

fixed, starting | working | foreign, private | equity, investment, share | risk, venture

VERB + CAPITAL

have

We don't have enough capital to buy new premises.

| accumulate, attract, borrow, generate, raise

He had various ideas on how to raise capital for the project.

| invest, provide, put (up), sink

The company has put a lot of capital into the project. We can't expect the government to put up the capital. He sank vast amounts of capital in the venture.

| free up, release, unlock | tie up

Our capital is all tied up in property.

CAPITAL + NOUN

investment in major capital projects

| gain, loss | flows, inflow, movement, outflow, receipt | value

the capital value of the property

| market

PHRASES

capital intensive

capital intensive industries

| an injection of capital

Inner city areas require a large injection of capital.

| a return on your capital

Investors want an immediate return on their capital. > Special page at BUSINESS

² city

ADJ.

great, major

The department store has branches in all major capitals.

| British, Japanese, etc. | foreign | provincial, regional, state | cultural, financial, etc.

PREP.

in a/the ~

the fast pace of life in the capital

| ~ of

PHRASES

… capital of the world

Las Vegas is the gambling capital of the world.

Concise English dictionary

capitals'kæpɪtl
noun
+assets available for use in the production of further assets
+wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
+a seat of government
+one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
+a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
+the federal government of the United States
+a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
+the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
adj.
+first-rate
+of primary important
+uppercase