uncapitalizedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈkapᵻtl̩ʌɪzd/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈkapᵻtəlʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˌənˈkæpədlˌaɪzd/ 1. Not converted into capital (capital n.2 3a); not supplied with capital.
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1842 Morning Post 18 Jan. An attempt to induce the holders of uncapitalised coupons to..sacrifice a just, equitable, and fair demand on Spain for interest at five per cent.
1886 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 29 Mar. 2/1 The money circulates with..from 15 to 25 times its uncapitalised volume of flow.
1922 Electric Railway Jrnl. 11 Mar. 407/1 The uncapitalized civic value of the street railway.
1952 Times 1 Nov. 5/5 No long-range purpose would be served by measures to enable land of this type to be occupied by uncapitalized peasants.
2017 M. Griffiths New Poetics of Climate Change iv. 103 Where there is still sufficient uncapitalized environment to accommodate the externalities of industry.
2. Not written or printed as a capital or in capitals; lower-case.
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1885 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Oct. 748 The apostles (with an uncapitalized A).
1915 W. B. Wait Uniform Type Question 15 There is nothing to show that the uncapitalized sheet in the large type was not read by the best class of readers.
1988 L. Hutcheon Canad. Postmodern p. ix Truth has been replaced by truths, uncapitalized and in the plural.
2007 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Jan. 72/1 The object is to insert the 15 letters beneath each board into the pattern to create a fuller interlock of common, uncapitalized words reading across and down.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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