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    CAPITALISE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they capitalise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it capitalises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: capitalised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: capitalised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: capitalising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Convert (a company's reserve funds) into capitalplay

    Synonyms:

    capitalise; capitalize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    Hypernyms (to "capitalise" 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 "capitalise"):

    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)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expensesplay

    Synonyms:

    capitalise; capitalize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

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

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

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

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Compute the present value of a business or an incomeplay

    Synonyms:

    capitalise; capitalize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

    Hypernyms (to "capitalise" 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 "capitalise"):

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

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

    capital (wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value)

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

    capitalisation (an estimation of the value of a business)

    Sense 4

    Meaning:

    Write in capital lettersplay

    Synonyms:

    capitalise; capitalize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

    Hypernyms (to "capitalise" 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)

    capitalisation (writing in capital letters)

    Sense 5

    Meaning:

    Draw advantages fromplay

    Example:

    she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover

    Synonyms:

    capitalise; capitalize; take advantage

    Classified under:

    Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

    benefit; gain; profit (derive a benefit from)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s PP

    Derivation:

    capitalisation (the act of capitalizing on an opportunity)

    Sense 6

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    capitalise; capitalize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

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

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

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

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