noun
capital
CEFR A2
financial assets or wealth available for investment or business operations
In a sentence
Six example sentences with capital, each labelled with its topic.
The company raised enough capital to run for eighteen months without revenue, which bought time to rebuild the product.
Startups
Banks must hold a cushion of capital against bad loans, which is why regulators test the balance sheets yearly.
Finance
Merchant families supplied the capital for the first canal, and their descendants collected tolls on it for eighty years.
History
Countries short of capital borrow abroad to build ports and power plants, then repay the loans from the resulting growth.
Economics
The bakery needed fresh capital for a second oven, and the owner's cousin put in twenty thousand dollars for a share.
Business
Independent filmmakers spend more months raising capital than shooting, and the budget often shrinks between the two.
Movies
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