{
    "term": "capital",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the most important town or city of a country or region, where the government operates from",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Cairo is the capital of Egypt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **state capital**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rennes is the **provincial capital **of Brittany."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a tour of six European capital cities"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She liked the fast pace of life in the capital."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Paris, the fashion capital of the world"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Last week's gathering in the Californian state capital was no ordinary event."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The department store has branches in all major capitals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Troops are stationed in and around the capital."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Los Angeles is the movie capital of the world."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "major", "British"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the capital", "capital of"],
                "phrases": ["the… capital of the world"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a letter of the form and size that is used at the beginning of a sentence or a name (= A,B,C rather than a,b,c)",
            "sensetop": "in capitals",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Please write in capitals.",
                    "contextForm": "in capitals"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "wealth or property that is owned by a business or a person and can be invested or used to start a business",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "share/investment/equity capital"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had various ideas on how to **raise capital** for the project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a guide to investing capital in new markets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our capital is all tied up in property."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**capital investment** *(= money invested in a business)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**capital expenditure/spending ***(= money that an organization spends on buildings, equipment, etc.)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "capital costs/assets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the capital value of the property"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sank vast amounts of capital in the venture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They secured $175 million in capital funding from investors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Inner city areas require a large injection of capital."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Investors want an immediate return on their capital."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has put a lot of capital into the project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We don't have enough capital to buy new premises."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business", "Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["risk", "venture", "fixed"],
                "verb + capital": ["have", "accumulate", "acquire"],
                "capital + noun": ["assets", "goods", "resources"],
                "phrases": [
                    "capital and labour/​labor",
                    "an injection of capital",
                    "a return on your capital"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "an amount of money that is invested or is used to start a business",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to set up a business with a starting capital of £100 000"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["risk", "venture", "fixed"],
                "verb + capital": ["have", "accumulate", "acquire"],
                "capital + noun": ["assets", "goods", "resources"],
                "phrases": [
                    "capital and labour/​labor",
                    "an injection of capital",
                    "a return on your capital"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "people who use their money to start businesses, considered as a group",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "capital and labour"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["risk", "venture", "fixed"],
                "verb + capital": ["have", "accumulate", "acquire"],
                "capital + noun": ["assets", "goods", "resources"],
                "phrases": [
                    "capital and labour/​labor",
                    "an injection of capital",
                    "a return on your capital"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a valuable resource of a particular kind",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Education creates **intellectual capital** to convert into economic and social rewards."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Immigrant children have **cultural capital** of their own—including their home language—which may be undervalued."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "the top part of a column",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Buildings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to use a situation for your own advantage",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The opposition parties are making political capital out of the government's problems."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkæpɪtl/",
                "audio": "ca/capital/capital__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkæpɪtl/",
                "audio": "ca/capital/capital__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 5 Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘relating to the head or top’, later ‘standing at the head or beginning’): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’. noun sense 6 Middle English: from Old French capitel, from late Latin capitellum ‘little head’, diminutive of Latin caput."
}