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nounthe upper part of a column that supports the entablature
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nounthe federal government of the United States
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"printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"nounone of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasistype of:
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nounassets available for use in the production of further assets
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"capital A"adjectiveuppercase
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nouna book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
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"the crime capital of Italy" "the drug capital of Columbia"nouna center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
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nouna seat of governmenttype of:
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"a capital fellow" "a capital idea"adjectivefirst-rate
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"our capital concern was to avoid defeat"adjectiveof primary importance
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nounwealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic valuetype of:
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- "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
- "capital A"
- "the crime capital of Italy"
- "the drug capital of Columbia"
- "a capital fellow"
- "a capital idea"
- "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"