Allowance
(n.) Approval |
Allowance
(n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting |
Allowance
(n.) Acknowledgment. |
Allowance
(n.) License |
Allowance
(n.) That which is allowed |
Allowance
(n.) Abatement |
Allowance
(n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. |
Allowance
(n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink) |
Capital
(n.) Of or pertaining to the head. |
Capital
(n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life |
Capital
(n.) First in importance |
Capital
(n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation |
Capital
(n.) Of first rate quality |
Capital
(n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column. |
Capital
(n.) The seat of government |
Capital
(n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc. |
Capital
(a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. |
Capital
(a.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. |
Capital
(a.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts. |
Capital
(a.) A chapter, or section, of a book. |
Capital
(a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a. |
Credit
(n.) Reliance on the truth of something said or done |
Credit
(n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others |
Credit
(n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence |
Credit
(n.) That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem |
Credit
(n.) Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others |
Credit
(n.) Trust given or received |
Credit
(n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust |
Credit
(n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account |
Credit
(v. t.) To confide in the truth of |
Credit
(v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon |
Credit
(v. t.) To enter upon the credit side of an account |
Credit foncier
() A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities. |
Credit mobilier
() A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed. |
Expenditure
(n.) The act of expending |
Expenditure
(n.) That which is expended or paid out |
Investment
(n.) The act of investing, or the state of being invested. |
Investment
(n.) That with which anyone is invested |
Investment
(n.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. |
Investment
(n.) The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property |
Write
(v. t.) To set down, as legible characters |
Write
(v. t.) To set down for reading |
Write
(v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author. |
Write
(v. t.) To impress durably |
Write
(v. t.) To make known by writing |
Write
(v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas |
Write
(v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting |
Write
(v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words |
Write
(v. i.) To compose or send letters. |
| credit | used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise, she already had several performances to her credit |
credit
course credit | recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed, typically measured in semester hours |
semester hour
credit hour | a unit of academic credit, one hour a week for an academic semester |
| investment investiture | the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office, the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank |
| write-in | a vote cast by writing in the name of a candidate who is not listed on the ballot |
| write-off | the act of cancelling from an account a bad debt or a worthless asset |
consumption
using up
expenditure | the act of consuming something |
| capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
| foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
| investment | the act of putting on robes or vestments |
investing
investment | the act of investing, laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit |
| foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
expending
expenditure | the act of spending money for goods or services |
| allowance | the act of allowing, He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room |
execution
executing
capital punishment
death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
| investment | outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism |
capital
chapiter
cap | the upper part of a column that supports the entablature |
| capital ship | a warship of the first rank in size and armament |
CD-R
compact disc recordable
CD-WO
compact disc write-once | a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
random-access memory
random access memory
random memory
RAM read
write memory | the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on, an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible |
read
write head
head | (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk |
| investment | the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result, this job calls for the investment of some hard thinking, he made an emotional investment in the work |
allowance
leeway
margin tolerance | a permissible difference, allowing some freedom to move within limits |
credit rating
credit | an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments |
| credit system | a system for allowing people to purchase things on credit |
| credit | an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work, the credits were given at the end of the film |
by-line
credit line | a line giving the name of the writer of a story or article |
| credit application | an application for a line of credit |
credit order
bill-me order | an order that is received without payment, requires billing at a later date |
report
news report
story account write up | a short account of the news, the report of his speech, the story was on the o'clock news, the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious |
| full faith and credit | a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt, usually issued by the United States Treasury |
recognition
credit | approval, give her recognition for trying, he was given credit for his work, give her credit for trying |
citation cite
acknowledgment credit reference mention quotation | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage, the student's essay failed to list several important citations, the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book, the article includes mention of similar clinical cases |
| photo credit | a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph |
capital
capital letter
uppercase
upperase letter
majuscule | one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis, printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases, capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upperase letters |
small capital
small cap | a character having the form of an upperase letter but the same height as lowerase letters |
block letter
block capital | a plain hand-drawn letter |
Das Kapital
Capital | a book written by Karl Marx () describing his economic theories |
investment company
investment trust
investment firm
fund | a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies |
mutual fund
mutual fund company
open-end fund
open-end investment company | a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares |
closed-end fund
closed-end investment company | a regulated investment company that issues a fixed number of shares which are listed on a stock market |
Real Estate Investment Trust
REIT | an investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate assets, shares can be bought and sold in the stock market |
unit investment trust
unit trust | a regulated investment company consisting of professional managers who issue redeemable securities representing a portfolio of many different securities, you can invest in a unit investment trust for as little as $ |
| credit union | a cooperative depository financial institution whose members can obtain loans from their combined savings |
| credit bureau | a private firm that maintains consumer credit data files and provides credit information to authorized users for a fee |
Capital
Washington | the federal government of the United States |
commercial finance company
commercial credit company | a finance company that makes loans to manufacturers and wholesalers |
Farm Credit System
FCS | a cooperative nationwide system of banks and associations providing credit to farmers and related businesses, originally capitalized by the federal government but now owned by its members and borrowers |
| capital | a seat of government |
| capital | a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product, the crime capital of Italy, the drug capital of Columbia |