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Capitalize   /kˈæpətəlˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Capitalize  v. t.  (past & past part. capitalized; pres. part. capitalizing)  
1.
To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
2.
To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)
3.
To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
4.
To supply capital for (an enterprise), especially by selling capital stock.





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"Capitalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... construction had earned for Bill, the boy had turned in to help his mother. But Mr. Grier, busy at house building and doing better than at most other times, was able to add something to his boy's earnings, so that Gus could capitalize the undertaking, which he was ...
— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron
... we had succeeded, my friend B. and I, in dispensing with almost three of our six months' engagement as Voluntary Drivers, Sanitary Section 21, Ambulance Norton Harjes, American Red Cross, and at the moment which subsequent experience served to capitalize, had just finished the unlovely job of cleaning and greasing (nettoyer is the proper word) the own private flivver of the chief of section, a gentleman by the convenient name of Mr. A. To borrow a characteristic-cadence from Our Great President: the lively satisfaction which we ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... reformers capitalize our national lack of good taste. Good proof of that are the moral works of ...
— Moral • Ludwig Thoma
... on the page. Capitalize important words. It is unnecessary to place a period after a title, but a question mark or exclamation point should be used when one is appropriate. Do not underscore the title, or unnecessarily place it in quotation marks. Leave a blank line under the title, before ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever
... 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


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