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/smɔl kˈæpətəl/ Listen

noun

capital n.

1.

(Arch.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

2.

(Geog.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital"

3.

Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.

4.

(Polit. Econ.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. Note: When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital. The capital of a civilized community includes fixed capital (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) and circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange).

5.

Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. "He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture."

6.

(Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

7.

A chapter, or section, of a book. (Obs.) "Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital."

8.

(Print.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.

Active capital. See under Active,

Small capital (Print.), a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a.

To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Small capital" Quotes from Famous Books

... and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. At Lerwick, the small capital of the Shetland islands, tenpence a-day, I have been assured, is a common price of common labour. In the same islands, they knit worsted stockings to the value of a guinea a ...

— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith

... In the printed book, all references to plays give the Act in lower-case Roman numerals and the Scene in small capital Roman numerals; the two look identical except for the dots over the i's. For this plain-text version, the conventional "IV.iv" sequence ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn

... Hated it! I went there lured by a belief that a man like myself, with muscle and will, even without experience, could make a fortune out of small capital on a sheep ranch. Wind and weather and disease played the devil with me. I lost the little I had and came back to begin over again—on nothing—here!" And he waved his hand over the park with its sward and coppice and bracken and the deer cropping ...

— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... little book "A Start in Life," because it conveys information which would enable any person possessing a small capital, with some industry, patience, and steady habits, to make a start in life which, humanly speaking, could not ...

— A start in life • C. F. Dowsett

... This man has for years past seemed so trustworthy and active, that we put the most perfect confidence in him; his salary and commission were so large that he could not only live comfortably, but could save money, which he invested in our house. While he left his avowable savings to grow to a small capital in our hands, he robbed us frightfully—intercepted money, forged bills, and made false claims on the firm, which was easy, as he had your power of attorney—so that our loss already amounts to some ten ...

— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai

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