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Capitalisation

Definitions: Capitalisation

Capitalisation

Noun

1. Writing in capital letters.

2. An estimation of the value of a business.

3. The act of capitalizing on an opportunity.

4. The sale of capital stock.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Capitalisation

DomainDefinitions

Economics

The process of determining the value at one point in time of a series of values arising at subsequent points in time. Source: European Union. (references)

Finance

In the taxation of income, the addition of certain types of expenditure to the basis for depletion. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Capitalisation

Synonym: capitalization (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Capitalisation

English words defined with "capitalisation": market capitalisation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "capitalisation": BiCapitalisationcapitalised earnings value, capitalized income value, capitalized yield valuesmall cap stock, small-capitalisation stock, small-capitalization stockvolume of issues, volume of new issues. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Capitalisation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (capitalization).

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Commercial Usage: Capitalisation

DomainTitle

Books

  • A study of the incidence and impact of capitalisation issues : a report prepared for the Research Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (reference)

  • Capitalisation, efficiency and the demand for local public services (reference)

  • Comment réussir un placement en assurance-vie et en capitalisation (reference)

  • Financial Times 500, 1998: The World's Top 500 Companies by Market Capitalisation, the Top 500 in Europe, Us, Japan and UK, the Top Asia-Pacific, (reference)

  • Kapitalisierung, neue Wege = Capitalisation, nouvelles voies (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Capitalisation

"Capitalisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Capitalisation" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%11530,138

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Capitalisation

Expression using "capitalisation": market capitalisation. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "capitalisation": under-capitalisation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Capitalisation

Language Translations for "capitalisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kapitalisering (accumulation, capitalization, interest capitalization). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kapitalisering (capitalization), kapitalisatie met een fiscaal doel (capitalization), kapitalisatie (accumulation, capitalization, interest capitalization). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kapitalointi (capitalization), kapitalisointi (capitalization). (various references)

   

French

  

capitalisation fiscale (capitalization), sommation actualisée (capitalization), actualisation (calculation of present value, capitalization). (various references)

   

German

  

Kapitalisation (capitalization). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Κεφαλοποίηση (capitalization), κεφαλαιοποίησις (capitalization). (various references)

   

Italian

  

capitalizzazione fiscale (capitalization), capitalizzazione (accumulation, capitalization, compounding, interest capitalization). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apitalisationcay

   

Portuguese

  

fiscalização (capitalization, control, inspection, inspectorate, oversight, superintendence, supervision, surveillance). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

capitalización (accumulation, capitalization, compounding, interest capitalization), fiscalización (audit, capitalization). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kapitalisering (accumulation, capitalization), kapitalbildning (capitalization). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Capitalisation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-t-t"

-2 letters: antipolitics.

-3 letters: capitations, politicians.

-4 letters: anaplastic, antisocial, capitalist, capitation, catatonias, ciliations, citational, lactations, placations, plications, politician, sincipital, solicitant.

-5 letters: antipasti, antipasto, aplanatic, atonalist, caponatas, catatonia, ciliation, cisplatin, citations, coattails, lactation, opticians, pianistic, pisolitic, placation, plication, postnatal, saltation, satiation, siltation, sincipita, stational, tailcoats, talapoins.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: capitalizations.

 

+3 letters: recapitalizations.

 

+4 letters: particularizations.

 

+5 letters: overcapitalizations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Capitalisation


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 70 69 74 61 6C 69 73 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0070 0069 0074 0061 006C 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767827586677875856786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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