CAPITAL

Capital

In economics, capital goods, real capital, or capital assets are already-produced durable goods or any non-financial asset that is used in production of goods or services. Some accounting regimes such as the Triple bottom line, include definitions of natural capital and social capital, in which ecosystems and social relations are defined as capital assets. See that article for more detail.

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capital

Noun

  1. Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
  2. Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
  3. A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
  4. The most important city in the field specified.
  5. An uppercase letter.
  6. The uppermost part of a column.
  7. Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.

Adjective

  1. of prime importance
  2. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
    London and Paris are capital cities.
  3. excellent
    That is a capital idea!
  4. Involving punishment by death.
  5. uppercase
    One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
  6. Of or relating to the head.


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