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CAPITALIZE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Compute the present value of a business or an income

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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 4

Meaning:

Write in capital letters

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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 5

Meaning:

Draw advantages from

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 "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 6

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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