verb
- Draw advantages from.
- usage: "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover"
- synonyms: capitalise, take advantage
- Supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders.
- synonyms: capitalise
- Write in capital letters.
- synonyms: capitalise
- Compute the present value of a business or an income.
- synonyms: capitalise
- Consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses.
- synonyms: capitalise
- Convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital.
- synonyms: capitalise
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