capital
资本,首府
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- : the city or town that is the official seat of government in a country, state, etc.: Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
- : a city regarded as being of special eminence in some field of activity: New York is the dance capital of the world.
- : capital letter.
- : the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.
- : an accumulated stock of such wealth.
- : any form of wealth employed or capable of being employed in the production of more wealth.
- : Accounting. assets remaining after deduction of liabilities; the net worth of a business.the ownership interest in a business.
- : any source of profit, advantage, power, etc.; an asset or assets: He has the political capital to push through the legislation. His indefatigable drive is his greatest capital.
- : capitalists as a group or class: High taxation has reduced the spending power of capital.
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- : pertaining to financial capital: capital stock.
- : principal; highly important: This guide offers suggestions of capital interest to travelers.
- : chief, especially as being the official seat of government of a country, state, etc.: the capital city of France.
- : excellent or first-rate: a capital hotel; a capital fellow.
- : capital letter.
- : involving the loss of life: capital punishment.
- : punishable by death: a capital crime; a capital offender.
- : fatal; extremely serious: a capital error.
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Examples
Amazon on Thursday announced the first companies to receive money from a $2 billion venture capital fund it formed to help combat climate change.
That’s been the pattern for other recent high-profile, venture-capital backed IPOs.
This capital has helped to de-risk the fund’s investments, allowing it the flexibility to invest in firms that banks might turn away.
So the 11% drop in the valuation would leave investors with a 1% annual capital gain.
Those arrangements offer businesses more flexibility with their capital.
Gunshots rang out in Paris this morning on a second day of deadly violence that has stunned the French capital.
The mistletoe must have been hanging right across the aisle on Capital Hill.
The second major split between the capital and the court occurred over oral care.
Ah, gay Paree—the French capital has practically announced its own LGBT friendliness since the Belle Époque.
And the capital city is a veritable utopia of acceptance and integration.
"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.
The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.
It is the quiet chef lieu of the Allier, and was once the capital of the Bourbonnais.
All possibility of a general increase of wages depended on the relation of available capital to the numbers of the working men.