Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce from the rank or position of a capital city, or from a position of central importance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
convert aword orcharacter string fromincorrect tocorrect capitalization , especially to convert the firstletter fromuppercase tolowercase .
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Examples
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Third, a prolonged period of very low interest rates will decapitalize defined-benefit pension funds—both private and public—throughout the country.
Where Are the Bond Vigilantes? Ronald McKinnon 2011
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If Russia were to launch a multi-hundred billion dollar box office futures market, opportunities would immediately open up for popular culture to change in ways that would decapitalize the tired Hollywood formula, while simultaneously creating momentum for projects that incorporated views from the mid-east and far east; with Russia acting as a geographic and intellectual bridge between East and West.
Max Keiser: Why Russia Might Be the Best Place for Box Office Futures 2010
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If Russia were to launch a multi-hundred billion dollar box office futures market, opportunities would immediately open up for popular culture to change in ways that would decapitalize the tired Hollywood formula, while simultaneously creating momentum for projects that incorporated views from the mid-east and far east; with Russia acting as a geographic and intellectual bridge between East and West.
Max Keiser: Why Russia Might Be the Best Place for Box Office Futures 2010
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In fact, its mandate to pay out 6 percent of a foundation's assets in grants probably requires the foundation to spend down and therefore decapitalize.
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That means that the capital markets decapitalize the real economy.
William K. Black: How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance's Five Fatal Flaws 2009
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Was it a conscious choice to decapitalize all the text in the blog pages?
new look 2007
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Was it a conscious choice to decapitalize all the text in the blog pages?
new look 2007
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The other two they were decapitalize 'on that gui'otine.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884
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Exhibits include a keyboard from the movie “Men in Black II” in which the shift key doesn’t capitalize or decapitalize but translates from English to an alien language.
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