n assets available for use in the production of further assets
n wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
n a seat of government
n one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases
n a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
the crime capital of Italy the drug capital of Columbia
n the federal government of the United States
n a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
n the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
s first-rate
a capital fellow a capital idea
s of primary importance
our capital concern was to avoid defeat