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CAPITAL ACCOUNT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("capital account" is a kind of...):
account; account statement; accounting (a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance)
Domain category:
finance (the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("capital account" is a kind of...):
account; account statement; accounting (a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance)
Domain category:
economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)
Holonyms ("capital account" is a part of...):
balance of international payments; balance of payments (a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year)