| 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 |
| spending cut | the act of reducing spending |
consumption
using up
expenditure | the act of consuming something |
| spending spree | a brief period of extravagant spending |
| 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) |
spending
disbursement
disbursal
outlay | the act of spending or disbursing money |
expending
expenditure | the act of spending money for goods or services |
deficit spending
compensatory spending
pump priming | spending money raised by borrowing, used by governments to stimulate their economy |
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 |
| 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 |
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 $ |
Capital
Washington | the federal government of the United States |
| 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 |
| national capital | the capital city of a nation |
| provincial capital | the capital city of a province |
| state capital | the capital city of a political subdivision of a country |
Kabul
capital of Afghanistan | the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in eastern Afghanistan |
Tirana
Albanian capital | the capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country |
Algiers
Algerian capital | an ancient port on the Mediterranean, the capital and largest city of Algeria |
Luanda
Angolan capital | port city on Atlantic coast, the capital and largest city of Angola |
| St. John's Saint John's capital of Antigua and Barbuda | the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, located on the island of Antigua |
Buenos Aires
capital of Argentina | capital and largest city of Argentina, located in eastern Argentina near Uruguay, Argentina's chief port and industrial and cultural center |
Sofia
Serdica
Bulgarian capital | capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria |
Bujumbura
Usumbura
capital of Burundi | the capital and largest city of Burundi, Usumbura was renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in |
Phnom Penh
Pnom Penh
Cambodian capital | the capital and largest city of Kampuchea |
Yaounde
capital of Cameroon | the capital of Cameroon |
Praia
Cidade de Praia
capital of Cape Verde | the capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island |
Bangui
capital of Central Africa | the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic |
Colombo
capital of Sri Lanka | the capital and largest city of Sri Lanka, has one of the largest harbors in the world, is located on the western coast of the island of Ceylon |
N'Djamena
Ndjamena
Fort-Lamy
capital of Chad | the capital and largest city of Chad, located in the southwestern on the Shari river |
Gran Santiago
Santiago
Santiago de Chile
capital of Chile | the capital and largest city of Chile, located in central Chile, one of the largest cities in South America |
Beijing
Peking
Peiping
capital of Red China | capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China, nd largest Chinese city |
Taipei
Taipeh
capital of Taiwan | the capital of Nationalist China, located in northern Taiwan |
Bogota
capital of Colombia | capital and largest city of Colombia, located in central Colombia on a high fertile plain |