small-cap

[ smawl-kap ]

adjective

designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of under $1 billion: considered to have more growth potential and higher investment risk.

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Nearly every woman wore a small cap or a small round straw hat with a ribbon round it.
English Costume | Dion Clayton Calthrop
It was, after all, but a small cap now, and had but little of the weeping willow left in its construction.
Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope
The Abenakis enclose their heads in a small cap embroidered with beads or ornamented with brocade.
Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime | William Henry Atherton
He took off a small cap which enclosed his light hair, which then fell in thick curls down the finest neck I ever beheld.
Voltaire's Romances | Franois-Marie Arouet
A small cap, delicately plaited, covers the fore-part of her head, and a rich wide band of pearls and gems surmounts it.
Barn and the Pyrenees | Louisa Stuart Costello

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