CAPITALISE
Dictionary entry overview: What does capitalise mean?
• CAPITALISE (verb)
The verb CAPITALISE has 6 senses:
1. supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders
2. draw advantages from
3. write in capital letters
4. compute the present value of a business or an income
5. consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses
6. convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital
Familiarity information: CAPITALISE used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
• CAPITALISE (verb)
Meaning:
Supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
capitalise; capitalize
Hypernyms (to "capitalise" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (provide or furnish with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Draw advantages from
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
capitalize; take advantage; capitalise
Context examples:
he is capitalizing on her mistake / she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover
Hypernyms (to "capitalise" is one way to...):
benefit; gain; profit (derive a benefit from)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Write in capital letters
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
capitalize; capitalise
Hypernyms (to "capitalise" is one way to...):
write (mark or trace on a surface)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Compute the present value of a business or an income
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
capitalise; capitalize
Hypernyms (to "capitalise" is one way to...):
calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out (make a mathematical calculation or computation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "capitalise"):
overcapitalise; overcapitalize (estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
capitalise; capitalize
Hypernyms (to "capitalise" is one way to...):
consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
capitalise; capitalize
Hypernyms (to "capitalise" is one way to...):
change; commute; convert; exchange (exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "capitalise"):
overcapitalise; overcapitalize (capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
