Meaning

noun assets available for use in the production of further assets

noun wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

noun a seat of government

originFrom Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective. In the fourth…

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