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CAPITALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does capitalize mean?
• CAPITALIZE (verb)
The verb CAPITALIZE has 6 senses:
2. supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders
4. compute the present value of a business or an income
5. consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses
6. convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital
Familiarity information: CAPITALIZE used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |




Past simple: capitalized


Past participle: capitalized


-ing form: capitalizing


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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