Definition of "capitalize" []

To use as or convert into capital. (verb-transitive)
To supply with capital or investment funds: capitalize a new business. (verb-transitive)
To authorize the issue of a certain amount of capital stock of: capitalize a corporation. (verb-transitive)
To convert (debt) into capital stock or shares. (verb-transitive)
To calculate the current value of (a future stream of earnings or cash flows). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "capitalize" in a sentence

"The Dark Knight and other 2008 hit titles capitalize on little new release competition."
""That money is going directly to the banks, and helping them re-capitalize, which is precisely (sorry, originally) what the original bank bailout was supposed to do.""
"That money is going directly to the banks, and helping them re-capitalize, which is precisely (sorry, originally) what the original bank bailout was supposed to do."

Words like "capitalize"

benefit capitalized capitalizes capitalizing

consider furnish gain profit

provide reckon regard render

see supply view write