capitol vs capital
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noun
- the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet
Examples
Congress houses most of its collections in three buildings on Capitol Hill.
The bust of Thales shown above is in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, but is not contemporary with Thales and is unlikely to bear any resemblance to him
A passive-aggressiveness marches through it: On one hand, Capitol doubts its salability and keeps it off the market; on the other, the label constantly attempts to justify its importance by hailing every burp and burble emanating from the recording booth.
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noun
- the federal government of the United States
- a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
Examples
Ithome, a new capital which they called Messene (370 B.C.).
Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment.
Capital controls would be lifted, at which point the currency would devalue further.
