capitalizationn.
/ˌkapᵻtl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌkapᵻtəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkæpədl̩əˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌkæpədlˌaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The action or process of making an industry, economy, etc., function according to capitalist principles.
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1831 Edinb. Rev. June 469 It would sound pedantic to talk of capitalization, whilst any longer periphrasis would be inconvenient. Yet none but capitalists could advantageously resort to India.
1898 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 12 38 The capitalization of industry, the nature of property,..can be explained in such a way that the ordinary boy can get something out of it.
1914 H. C. Vedder Reformation in Germany Introd. p. xxxi The complete capitalization of industry remained to be completed after the invention of machinery at the close of the eighteenth century.
1978 Econ. Hist. Rev. 31 164 The increasing capitalization of the industry had transformed the traditional ‘single boating’ into a nightmare version of modern fish-finger production.
1995 A. Escobar Encountering Devel. v. 200 The history of modernity and capitalism..must be seen as the progressive capitalization of production conditions.
2004 P. E. Louw Rise, Fall & Legacy Apartheid i. 14 The capitalization of agriculture necessarily spawned a large surplus rural population of Boers and blacks who migrated to slums in the ever-growing cities.
2.
a. The action of converting into capital, or of representing an annual income or payment by its capital value. Cf. recapitalization n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > converting into money or cash > converting into capital
capitalizing1764
capitalization1832
1832 Times 7 June 3/2 The capitalization of that part of the debt which has by the treaty become apportioned to Belgium.
1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 30 243 The profits..were to be capitalized, and she was only to have the income arising from that capitalization.
1902 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 16 223 A conservative policy is..more necessary in the capitalization of an integrated than of a non-integrated company.
1955 Times 1 July 16/5 The balance-sheet shows the increase in ordinary share capital arising from this capitalization.
2002 Derbyshire Life & Countryside Nov. 44/2 (advt.) If you were a 50 year old woman requiring £40,000 net each year, you might expect to receive about £750,000 for the capitalisation of the maintenance.
b. The sum or figure resulting from the action of converting into capital; a figure representing the present value of future payments; the market value of all shares of a company by reference to current market price.market capitalization: see market n. Compounds 2.
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1864 Merchants' Mag. Sept. 181 The value of the land, as property, represents its productive power, and is a capitalization of the annual product.
1906 Daily Chron. 13 Feb. 5/1 The companies have a capitalisation of 80,000,000 dols.
1970 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 21/3 IBM—whose market capitalisation is larger than that of any other United States company—is the post-war growth stock par excellence.
2002 Times 16 July (Business section) 24/1 Celltech..is not in the FTSE 100 but has a chunky market capitalisation of £1 billion.
c. The provision of capital for a business, company, etc.; capital so provided.
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1889 Cultivator 16 May 383/3 The tendency is towards greater capitalization of farming, more expensive plants of farm machinery and buildings, and of course larger farms.
1915 Bankers Mag. Oct. 488/2 There will be no necessity for continuing that part of the law which requires national banks to supply capitalization for the Federal Reserve Banks.
1979 Financial World 15 Mar. 75/3 Playboy on Broadway's producers claim they began their capitalization drive with an ad in the Times.
1993 M. Crichton Disclosure i. 69 He needs capitalization. He's built his company skillfully, but we're going to require massive infusions of cash for the next phase.
2004 R. A. Chechile ABCs of IPOs viii. 175 Venture capitalists are individuals, or organizations, that provide capitalization for new business ventures.
3. The action of writing or printing something in capitals; the action of changing a text from lower to upper case.
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society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > printing in capitals
capitalling1683
capitalization1835
1835 Evangelical Mag. & Gospel Advocate 15 Aug. 262/1 We are not about to..give a course of lectures on the rules of syntax,..punctuation, capitalization, italicization, [etc.].
1879 Chronicle 10 80 With instructions for Capitalisation, Letter-Writing, and Proof-Reading.
1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. p. lxvii/2 There may be variations in capitalization, in italization, or in word divisions at the ends of lines.
1964 F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Crit. vi. iii. 177 The details of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and word-division.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 952/4 Crutchley lost the battle over motorway signs, which cried out for capitalization.
2002 Times 7 Jan. ii. 6/2 We've been busily eroding the rules of spelling and capitalisation in our quest for speed.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [noun] > chief town or capital city > conversion into
capitalization1865
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Oct. 10 Florence is being summarily subjected to the advantages of capitalization.
Compounds
capitalization issue n. the issue of additional shares to existing shareholders in proportion to their existing holdings, without further payment being required; = scrip issue n. at scrip n.4 Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > share-issuing activities
scrip issue1841
public offer1854
bonus issue1868
inscription1884
public offering1889
capitalization issue1902
introduction1929
follow-on1985
1902 World's Work Dec. 2831/1 Several years ago nearly all capitalization issues on the part of important corporations were in the form of stock.
1955 Times 19 Feb. 11/2 Three Indian tea companies..are making capitalization issues following revaluations of their estates.
1990 R. Izhar Accounting, Costing, & Managem. i. xi. 175 No dividends were paid or proposed but shareholders all accepted a capitalization issue of ‘one for five’.
2004 B. Coyle Risk Awareness & Corporate Governance (ed. 2) xi. 199 A capitalization issue may also be made wholly or in part out of distributable profits.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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