Synonym: chief, city, important, leading, money, stock, top. Antonym: interest, labor, trivial. Similar words: capita, hospital, vital, Italian, digital, rapid, Cap., cap. Meaning: ['kæpɪtl] 
n. 1. assets available for use in the production of further assets 2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value 3. a seat of government 4. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis 5. a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product 6. the federal government of the United States 7. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories 8. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature. adj. 1. first-rate 2. of primary important 3. uppercase.
n. 1. assets available for use in the production of further assets 2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value 3. a seat of government 4. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis 5. a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product 6. the federal government of the United States 7. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories 8. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature. adj. 1. first-rate 2. of primary important 3. uppercase. 
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121, The opposition parties are all making political capital out of the disagreements within the government.
122, Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
123, The capital has been without mains water since Wednesday night.
124, They blitzed the capital with tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft weapons and machine guns.
125, The local drama group are putting on "Sister Jiang" at the Capital Theatre.
126, A sleepy capital of a few hundred thousand people has mushroomed to a crowded city of 2 million.
127, Apart from the capital outlay of buying the machine, dishwashers can actually save you money.
128, Colmar has long been considered the capital of the wine trade.
129, Some people are in favour of restoring capital punishment for murderers.
130, The main function of the merchant banks is to raise capital for industry.
131, The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small American high-tech firms.
132, They've even mounted guard outside the main hotel in the capital.
133, The soldiers marched to the capital of the enemy country.
134, The opposition leader was arrested and taken to the capital under escort.
135, Brasilia has quickly established itself as the capital of the country.
136, He rebuked the President for trying to make political capital out of the hostage situation.
137, He is one of the leading proponents of capital punishment.
138, It is important for the state's future administrators to get out of the rarefied air of the capital.
139, The army has been sent in to maintain order in the capital.
140, Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility or influence,[sentence dictionary] but not both.
141, At first sight it looked less like a capital city than a mining camp.
142, There is strong support here for the tough economic reforms ordained in the federal capital, Prague.
143, You have to take capital appreciation of the property into account.
144, We betray the ideals of our country when we support capital punishment.
145, Demonstrators clashed with government soldiers in the country's capital yesterday.
146, He moved an amendment limiting capital punishment to certain very serious crimes.
147, Many start-ups are hobbled by a lack of sufficient capital.
148, Yesterday, a cargo ship chartered by the UN arrived in the capital carrying 1,550 tons of rice.
149, The theory assumes that both labour and capital are mobile.
150, I am negotiating with financiers to raise seed capital for my latest venture.