Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb capitalize

6 senses of capitalize

Sense 1
capitalize, capitalise, take advantage -- (draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover")
       => profit, gain, benefit -- (derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience")

Sense 2
capitalize, capitalise -- (supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders)
       => supply, provide, render, furnish -- (give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater")

Sense 3
capitalize, capitalise -- (write in capital letters)
       => write -- (mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet")

Sense 4
capitalize, capitalise -- (compute the present value of a business or an income)
       => calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure -- (make a mathematical calculation or computation)

Sense 5
capitalize, capitalise -- (consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses)
       => see, consider, reckon, view, regard -- (deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do")

Sense 6
capitalize, capitalise -- (convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital)
       => change, exchange, commute, convert -- (exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares")