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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
capitalise .
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Examples
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Archibald Ingall Stretton capitalises on this with a regular "One Room" in which clients, account managers and customers sit and brainstorm ideas.
Open for business 2012
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Its enormous, ruthlessly efficient and capitalises on its strengths - its brand and marketing, and uses them to promote top class hardware and software packaged as brilliantly designed and easy to use products.
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The film is aimed at students and capitalises on his former status as a university lecturer.
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I think the sad truth is that the prejudice may have shifted but that the story still capitalises on it.
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006
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Even when a novum is constructed in a fiction which plays with existing tropes, familiarity is of less import than the estrangement, the peculiar novelty it capitalises on.
Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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If the next president is resolute and capitalises on the success of the Petraeus surge, then Iraq could, in time, become a functioning, pluralistic, democratic state.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008
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That return rate capitalises on the valuable skills these workers have developed in-country.
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Like the absurd or the unheimlich an irrationality is injected into the alternative/future narrative, an implausibility which it capitalises on.
Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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If we accept the arguments outlined thus far that a reformed governance model for the SOE and a disciplined flexibility to restructure and form SOE will allow them to play a decisive role in a Developmental State then we have to address how the State capitalises them.
Budget Vote Speech by the Minister of Public Enterprises, Alec Erwin, to the National Assembly 2008
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Do we also have metaphysical fiction which exploits, which capitalises on the strangeness of its imagery?
Strange Fiction 8 Hal Duncan 2006
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