Los Angeles is the movie capital of the world. Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective. great; major; British … preposition.

1(also capital city) [countable] the city where the central government of a country or state operates from Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana. · 2[singular] ...

capital · ​. [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 ...

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.

[singular] the building in Washington DC where the US Congress (= the national parliament) meets to work on new lawsTopics Politicsc2.

2[usually singular] a building in each U.S. state where politicians meet to work on new laws the California state capitol. See capitol in the Oxford ...

CAPITAL definition: 1. a city that is the centre of government of a country or smaller political area: 2. the most…. Learn more. Capital punishment · Human capital · Venture capital · Core capital

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

to build/develop/invest in human capital. The greatest resource any country has is the creativity of its citizens: what economists call human ...