[countable] the most important town or city of a country or region, where the government operates from. Cairo is the capital of Egypt. the state capital ...

money. [singular] a large amount of money that is invested or is used to start a business to set up a business with a capital investment of $100,000.

[only before noun] (of letters of the alphabet) having the form and size used at the beginning of a sentence or a name. English is written with a capital ...

used to emphasize that a word has a stronger meaning than usual in a particular situation He was romantic with a capital R.

1. Man-made material resource used or available for use in production, for example machinery. This is also referred to as physical capital.

​[usually singular] a building in each US state where politicians meet to work on new laws. the California state capitol.

a city that is the centre of government of a country or smaller political area: Australia's capital city is Canberra.

capital account, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary.

​a letter of the form and size that is used at the beginning of a sentence or a name (= A, B, C rather than a, b, c).

​the skills, knowledge and experience of a person or group of people, seen as something valuable that an organization or country can make use of.