| Noun | 1. | capital - assets available for use in the production of further assets Synonyms: working capital |
| 2. | capital - wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | |
| 3. | capital - a seat of government | |
| 4. | capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" | |
| 5. | Capital - a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories Synonyms: Das Kapital | |
| 6. | capital - the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | |
| Adj. | 1. | capital - first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" |
| 2. | capital - punishable by death; "a capital offense" | |
| 3. | capital - of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" | |
| 4. | capital - uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" |
CAPITAL, political economy, commerce. In political economy, it is that
portion of the produce of a country, which may be made directly available
either to support the human species or to the facilitating of production.
2. In commerce, as applied to individuals, it is those objects, whether
consisting of money or other property, which a merchant, trader, or other
person adventures in an undertaking, or which he contributes to the common
stock of a partnership. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1458.
3. It signifies money put out at interest.
4. The fund of a trading company or corporation is also called capital,
but in this sense the word stock is generally added to it; thus we say the
capital stock of the Bank of North America.