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Capitalize v. t. (past & past part. capitalized; pres. part. capitalizing)

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)

To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.

To supply capital for (an enterprise), especially by selling capital stock.

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Etymology of 'Capitalize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Capitalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ...

— Increasing Efficiency In Business • Walter Dill Scott

... the kingdom goes with buttons and pockets behind). Sunchildism becomes the state religion. The musical banks, which had been trading in stale idealism, take it over and get new life; and the professors of Bridgeford, the intellectuals of the kingdom, capitalize it, as we say to-day, and thus tighten their grip on the public's ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

Words linked to "Capitalize" : see, render, supply, capital, view, benefit, profit, provide, capitalise, compute, capitalization, take advantage, cipher, furnish, work out, change, overcapitalize, calculate, gain, commute, regard, convert