Capitalization meaning

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The total par or stated value of the stocks and bonds outstanding of a corporation.
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The definition of capitalization refers to writing in uppercase letters, or the total invested in a business or the total value of stocks and bonds of a corporation.

Writing in CAPITAL LETTERS (all letters in uppercase) is an example of capitalization.

If the total value of all outstanding shares of stock is $100,000, this is an example of a company's capitalization.

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The act or system of using capital letters in writing and printing.
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The use of capital letters in writing or printing.
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The total capital funds of a corporation, represented by stocks, bonds, undivided profit, surplus, etc.
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American and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalisation.
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Origin of capitalization

Capitalization Sentence Examples

  • These laws are to prevent fictitious capitalization and " stock-watering."

  • The total paid-up railway capital of the United Kingdom amounted, in 1908, to £1,310,533,212, or an average capitalization of £56,476 per route mile, though it should be noted that this total included £196,364,618 of nominal additions through " stock-splitting," &c. Per mile of single track, the capitalization in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the United Kingdom, is shown in Table VIII.

  • The line was to be constructed in sections of zoo kilometres (125 m.) each, and as the complete plans and drawings of each were presented at the times and in the order specified in the convention, the government was to deliver to the concessionnaires government securities representing the capitalization of the annuity accruing to that section.

  • (7) Hungary to be entitled to redeem her share of the old Austrian debt (originally bearing interest at 5 and now at 4.2%) at the rate of 4.3 2 5% within the next ten years; if not redeemed within ten years the rate of capitalization to decrease annually by -% until it reaches 4.2%.

  • In 1905 capitalization (under the factory system) had increased to $102,439,481, and value of products to $137,960,476.

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