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capitalization
[kap-i-tl-uh-zey-shuhn]
noun
the act or process of capitalizing.
the authorized or outstanding stocks and bonds of a corporation.
Accounting.
the total investment of the owner or owners in a business enterprise.
the total corporate liability.
the total arrived at after addition of liabilities.
conversion into stocks or bonds.
the act of computing the present value of future periodical payments.
capitalization
/ ˌkæpɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən /
noun
the act of capitalizing
the sum so derived
accounting the par value of the total share capital issued by a company, including the loan capital and sometimes reserves
the act of estimating the present value of future payments, earnings, etc
the act of writing or printing in capital letters
Word History and Origins
Origin of capitalization1
Example Sentences
For the S&P 500, the estimates are weighted by market capitalization.
The bank’s $50 million loss also pales in comparison to Thursday’s roughly $1 billion drop in market capitalization, the firm noted.
Higher R&D capitalization boosted earnings by around 500 million Swedish kronor.
Granted, expectations are already high for a very large company that has doubled its market capitalization in a little over a year.
“The companies that I’m trying to call my clients are worth $3.5 trillion or $4 trillion. They could spend in a year the entire market capitalization of my company,” he says.
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When To Use
Capitalization is the act of using capital letters.A capital letter (A, B, C, etc.) is a letter of the alphabet that is bigger than the lower case version (e.g., c, o, s) and sometimes styled differently as well (e.g., a, b, q). In English, we use capital letters for several reasons.The most common reasons we use capitalization in English are to begin a sentence and to indicate a proper noun.We capitalize the first letter of the first word of a sentence to show that this is the beginning of the sentence, as in Who took my wallet?This includes complete sentences that are used in quotations, as in Mom said, “We are going to the mall.”We also use capitalization for proper nouns, that is a particular person, place, or thing, like James, New York, or the Library of Congress.Sometimes, though, companies name themselves or their products without any capitalization or with capitalization in the middle of the word (sometimes called camel case), as in adidas, eBay, and WikiAnswers.The pronoun I is always capitalized, no matter where it is used in a sentence, as in He went to the park, but I stayed home.
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