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capitalization
/ˌkæpɪtəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
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kap-ih-tuh-lih-ZAY-shun: stress ZAY.
There is a smaller beat on KAP. The intervening syllables stay light, and the z before the long a is voiced.
6 syllables · Stress on syllable 5
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“The editor checked capitalization throughout the document.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does capitalization mean?
noun
- American and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalisation.
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/ˌkæpɪtəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
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Companies, with large capitalization, to engage in the exclusive production of airships are being organized in many parts of the world.
They mangle the language, grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
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The figures of capitalization and profit just mentioned were relatively much larger in the sixties than they are to-day; and to impressionable young operators they spelled illimitable wealth.
But, should production be multiplied by four, ten, or even one hundred, property would soon absorb, by its power of accumulation and the effects of its capitalization, both products and capital, and the land, and even the laborers.
By the side of net product, the natural reward of the laborer, I have pointed out as one of the happiest effects of monopoly the CAPITALIZATION of values, from which is born another sort of profit,--namely, INTEREST, or the hire of capital.