What is capital?

  • (noun): A seat of government.
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on capital:

Venture Capital - History - The Private Equity Crash (2000 To 2003)
... crash and technology slump that started in March 2000 shook virtually the entire venture capital industry as valuations for startup technology companies collapsed ... "under water" (the values of the fund's investments were below the amount of capital invested) ... Venture capital investors sought to reduce size of commitments they had made to venture capital funds, and, in numerous instances, investors sought to unload ...
Islamic Banking - Islamic Financial Transaction Terminology - Mudarabah
... The capital investment comes from the first partner, who is called the "rabb-ul-mal", while the management and work is the exclusive responsibility of the other party ... Mudarabah (Profit Sharing) is a contract, with one party providing 100 percent of the capital and the other party providing its specialist knowledge to invest ... If loss happened, the first partner "rabb-ul-mal" will lose his capital, and the other party "mudarib" will lose the time an effort he invested in running the business ...
Capital - Other Uses
... Capital Airlines (UK), an airline operating from the UK from 1987 to 1992 Capital (fortification), a proportion of a bastion Capital punishment, the sentence of death Capital (radio ...
Knowledge Capital
... Knowledge capital is a concept which asserts that ideas have intrinsic value which can be shared and leveraged within and between organizations ... Knowledge capital connotes that sharing skills and information is a means of sharing power ... Knowledge capital is the know how that results from the experience, information, knowledge, learning, and skills of the employees or individual of an organization or ...
Human Capital
... Human capital is the stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform ... Many theories explicitly connect investment in human capital development to education, and the role of human capital in economic development, productivity growth, and innovation has ... Just as land became recognized as natural capital and an asset in itself, and human factors of production were raised from this simple mechanistic analysis to human capital ...

More definitions of "capital":

  • (adj): Punishable by death.
    Example: "A capital offense"
  • (adj): Of primary important.
    Example: "Our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
  • (noun): Assets available for use in the production of further assets.
    Synonyms: working capital
  • (noun): Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value.
  • (noun): A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories.
    Synonyms: Das Kapital
  • (adj): First-rate.
    Example: "A capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
  • (noun): The upper part of a column that supports the entablature.
    Synonyms: chapiter, cap

Famous quotes containing the word capital:

    Capital is money, capital is commodities.... By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    The capital is become an overgrown monster; which like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.
    Tobias Smollett (1721–1771)

    There was a sound of revelry by night,
    And Belgium’s capital had gathered then
    Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright
    The lamps shone o’er fair women and brave men;
    A thousand hearts beat happily; and when
    Music arose with its voluptuous swell,
    Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,
    And all went merry as a marriage-bell;
    But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)