Collocations for "capital"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "capital" in context.
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capital
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [foreign, private, domestic] capital
- [working, equity, liquid, non-liquid] capital
- looking for [start up, investment, venture] capital
- [physical, human, social] capital
- [accumulate, accrue, release, raise] capital
- [inject, invest] capital in
- spend capital on
- does not have [enough, very much] capital
- needed capital for [a start-up, expansion, marketing]
- is the [Australian] capital
- is the capital of [Argentina]
- [where, what] is the capital of [South Africa]?
- is the [party, smoking, art] capital of the [United States, world]
- the capital city of [England]
- the [smallest, biggest, most populated] capital city
- capital [punishment, crimes, offenders]
- capital [investment, finance, stock, gains]
- (in) capital letters
- the word begins with a capital ["B"]
- a capital [sin, error, mistake]
- a capital [hotel, meal, performance]
'capital' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Australia
- I
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Paris
- Spain
- Wales
- abbreviation
- assemble
- assembly
- asset
- city
- defer
- depletion
- drain
- earnings
- endowment
- equity
- exemption
- expansion
- flow
- funding
- gain
- gather
- handicap
- income
- investment
- inward
- letter
- levy
- loss
- market
- movement
- needed
- punishment
- reserve
- resource
- restoration
- restraint
- risk
- sell
- shortfall
- stash
- stripped
- sufficient
- surplus
- trust
- venture
- wealth