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Money or property to invest. Also: The city or town where the government is located.

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  • Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
  • Our capital concern was to avoid defeat
  • The crime capital of Italy
  • The drug capital of Columbia
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  • It is "capital" (first rate, most important) that you had the "capital" (money invested in a business) to landscape around both the "capitol" (building in which the state legislature meets) and the "Capitol" (building in which the United States Congress m
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