capital1
• noun 1 the most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative centre. 2 wealth owned by a person or organization or invested, lent, or borrowed. 3 the excess of a company’s assets over its liabilities. 4 a capital letter. • adjective 1 (of an offence or charge) liable to the death penalty. 2 (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names. 3 informal, dated excellent. — PHRASES make capital out of use to advantage. — ORIGIN Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’.
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