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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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What does capitalization mean?

noun

  1. 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.
William J. (William James) Jackman; Octave Chanute; Thomas Herbert RussellFlying Machines: Construction and Operation A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern AirshipProject Gutenberg ebook #907
They mangle the language, grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
Ralph Albert ParletteThe University of Hard KnocksProject Gutenberg ebook #455
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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.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
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.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentProject Gutenberg ebook #360
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.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444