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- verb Present participle of
capitalise .
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Examples
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If you had fifty bonds that cost you par, and sold them at 110, you would then buy at par fifty-five bonds of some other rising kind, and go on doing this until -- I named no limit for this process; but my delighted mind saw visions of eighty and a hundred thousand a year -- comfort at least, if not affluence in New York -- and I explained to Ethel what the phrase capitalising one's premium meant.
Mother Owen Wister 1899
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You could also ask about adding missed payments to the loan, which is known as capitalising your arrears.
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PS - I'm not dead set on "capitalising" the word "Public" in the final parag, but thought it might make it a bit clearer.
My dad asks for a public inquiry Rachel 2005
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Should marketers go in with a view of 'capitalising' on consumer conversations and / or
Across the Sound 2009
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The lack of movement allowed them to regain their judgment outside off‑stump that had become such an integral part of Cook's game in Australia over the winter and accorded the openers the luxury of capitalising square of the wicket when the bowling dropped short.
India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report 2011
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Because of this I am capitalising on every potential opportunity to let my mind wander.
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But he retreated backwards once more and was made to pay as 10-time grand slam champion Nadal broke for 4-3, capitalising on a poor Lopez volley.
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Analysts fear that failure to address Yemen's swelling unrest, particularly its rising unemployment, may benefit al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula– an organisation which is already capitalising on lapsed security and an increasingly stretched army.
Yemeni forces kill 18 and wound hundreds as unrest escalates 2011
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'Continental glamour' would be a great achievement for both Sunderland and Newcastle - but the difficulty lies in capitalising on it and making it sustainable.
Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor 2011
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I get told off for not using umlauts or capitalising appropriately.
French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey 2011
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