capitalisation love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See capitalization, capitalize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun same as capitalization.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act or process of capitalising.
  • noun The state of being capitalised.
  • noun The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly-traded company

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun writing in capital letters
  • noun the act of capitalizing on an opportunity
  • noun an estimation of the value of a business
  • noun the sale of capital stock

Etymologies

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capitalise +‎ -ation

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Examples

  •  Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • European quoted companies have generated earnings equivalent to 96% of US earnings, but, the market capitalisation is 40% less (source: Datastream).

    2002 Investment Outlook 2002

  • The NYSE's market capitalisation is 19 times as large.

    The TSE and Its Future 1999

  • NASDAQ's market capitalisation is three times as large as the TSE's.

    The TSE and Its Future 1999

  • That domestic market capitalisation is almost equal to the annual GDP of all of Canada -- hundreds of billions of dollars invested in creating jobs, invested in our standard of living, invested in our future.

    The TSE and Its Future 1999

  • First and foremost of these was a fundamental issue of what she had been taught at the Botswana Secretarial College to call capitalisation, but which, in simple language, meant money.

    The Kalahari Typing School For Men Smith, Alexander McCall 2002

  • A body of very poor persons, individually -- in the commercial sense of the term -- insolvent, manage to create a new basis of security which has been somewhat grandiloquently and yet truthfully called the capitalisation of their honesty and industry.

    The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer Horace Curzon Plunkett 1893

  • In A.M. Best's opinion, Orient has a superior risk-adjusted capitalisation, which is supportive of the current business and the projected growth in the next two years.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • In A.M. Best's opinion, Orient has a superior risk-adjusted capitalisation, which is supportive of the current business and the projected growth in the next two years.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The ratings reflect the company's improved operating performance and excellent risk-adjusted capitalisation, which is partially offset by its relatively small size in a competitive market environment.

    A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Russian Reinsurance Company JSC - Yahoo! Finance 2010

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