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    • capital :first-rate
      • a capital fellow|a capital idea

    • capital :of primary importance
      • our capital concern was to avoid defeat

    • capital :uppercase
      • capital A|great A|many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script

    • capital :one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
      • 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 center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
      • the crime capital of Italy|the drug capital of Columbia

    • capital :assets available for use in the production of further assets

      • capital :wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

        • capital :a seat of government

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