Capitalise

verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalize. UK, alt-of, nonstandard

    "One of the remotest Cambridgeshire stations is enjoying an uplift in business from commuters capitalising on its cheaper park-and-ride benefits, as an alternative to Ely."

  2. 2
    convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital wordnet
  3. 3
    consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses wordnet
  4. 4
    compute the present value of a business or an income wordnet
  5. 5
    write in capital letters wordnet
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  1. 6
    draw advantages from wordnet
  2. 7
    supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders wordnet

Synonyms

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capitalizecapitalizetake advantage

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"bell hooks doesn’t capitalise her pen name."

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