English-French translations for capital

• capital
  Le capital-investissement est un capital à risque. Venture capital is risk capital.
  Les nouveau-nés sont le véritable capital de l'Europe. Newborn children are Europe's real capital.
  Le travail est un capital naturel, le capital produit par le peuple. Work is natural capital, the capital produced by people.
• capitale
  Deuxièmement, la peine capitale a un pouvoir de dissuasion. Secondly, capital punishment is a deterrent.
  La capitale du pays, Mogadiscio, est déserte. The country's capital, Mogadishu, is deserted.
  Objet: Réseau des régions abritant des capitales Subject: Capital Region network
• chapiteau
• majuscule
  Parmi ceux-ci, on trouve en lettres majuscules le mot «élargissement», mais il ne s'agit pas du seul chapitre. Among those tasks, the word enlargement is written in capital letters, but there are other entries in capitals too.
  Dans leur sens le plus large, les leçons de solidarité, avec et sans S majuscule, restent d’actualité aujourd’hui. In their wider meaning, the lessons of solidarity, with and without a capital S, remain valid today.
  L' organe central est dénommé "Autorité alimentaire européenne" (en abrégé "l' Autorité", avec un "A" majuscule). The central body is called 'the European Food Authority' (or 'the Authority' for short, with a capital 'A' ).
• excellent
  Les excellents niveaux de prise en charge sociale dans ces pays sont essentiellement le fait d’une taxation élevée - des entreprises, du capital et des revenus notamment. The excellent levels of social welfare in these countries are due very largely to high taxation, and that includes business tax, taxation on capital and income tax.
• fonds
  Ce principe s’applique aussi aux fonds de capitaux-risque. The same applies to venture capital funds.
  Ils sont en fait disponibles auprès des banques et des fonds de capital-risque. They are, in fact, available from banks and venture capital funds.
  Les exigences de fonds propres seront particulièrement lourdes pour les fonds de capital-investissement et le capital-risque. The capital requirements will be especially burdensome to PE and venture capital.
• prioritaire
  D’importants progrès ont été consentis pour relier cette question à un autre domaine prioritaire: l’investissement dans le capital humain. There had been very great progress made in linking this to another priority area, the investment in human capital.
  Nul doute qu’ils correspondent à des besoins très réels. Mais en faisant prioritairement appel à des capitaux privés, on en limite considérablement la portée. There is no doubt that they correspond to very real needs, but by mainly using private capital, the scope of them is being significantly limited.
  Je crois que la marche à suivre est de rendre prioritaires les politiques qui diminueraient la pression sur les capitales et favoriseraient le développement de villes de deuxième rang. I see the way forward as prioritising such policies that would decrease the pressure on capital cities and support the development of second-tier cities.

Definition of capital

• Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels and office buildings (structures
• A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it
• The most important city in the field specified
• An uppercase letter
• Knowledge; awareness; proficiency
• The chief or most important thing
• Of prime importance
• Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation
• Excellent
• Involving punishment by death
• Uppercase
• Of or relating to the head

Synonyms

• majuscule

Examples

• He does not have enough capital to start a business
• Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America
• The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital
• Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession
• London and Paris are capital cities
• That is a capital idea!
• One begins a sentence with a capital letter

Related words

• capitalism
• capitalist
• capitalize
• capitalise
• capitalisation
• capitalization
• capitalistic
• post-capitalism
• anarcho-capitalism