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CAPITALISATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sale of capital stock

Synonyms:

capitalisation; capitalization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("capitalisation" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capitalisation"):

overcapitalisation; overcapitalization ((business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of capitalizing on an opportunity

Synonyms:

capitalisation; capitalization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("capitalisation" is a kind of...):

development; exploitation (the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful)

Derivation:

capitalise (draw advantages from)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An estimation of the value of a business

Synonyms:

capitalisation; capitalization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("capitalisation" is a kind of...):

estimate; estimation (a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capitalisation"):

market capitalisation; market capitalization (an estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share)

Derivation:

capitalise (compute the present value of a business or an income)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Writing in capital letters

Synonyms:

capitalisation; capitalization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("capitalisation" is a kind of...):

writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)

Derivation:

capitalise (write in capital letters)

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