Definition of "capitalization" []

• The practice or act of capitalizing. (noun)
• The sum that results from capitalizing. (noun)
• The amounts and types of long-term financing used by a firm, including common stock, preferred stock, retained earnings, and long-term debt. (noun)
• The total par value or stated value of no-par capital stock issues. (noun)
• The use of capital letters in writing or printing. (noun)

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• "But the crucial difficulty, I suspect, was a lack of long-term capitalization, which is to say, investment by deep-pocketed liberal supporters."
• "Tax protesters are fond of pointing out that the 16th Amendment as ratified by the various states was not perfectly uniform in capitalization and punctuation practices, the Secretary of State found that none of these variations materially affected the meaning of the Amendment and certified it."
• "In “Our Forgotten Constitution: A Bicentennial Comment,” 97 Yale L.J. 281 (1987), Akhil Amar shows that the printed copy of the Constitution that was distributed to the states for ratification, differed in punctuation, spelling and capitalization from the engrossed (handwritten) parchment signed by the delegates to the Convention in Philadelphia, which is the version now enshrined in the National Archives."