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to capitalize

to capitalize

1 7.2
To work out how much a business or income is worth now
  • verb
  • /ˈkæpɪtəˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : capitalizar
  • Indeed, the principle of capitalizing specific income flows forms the basis for wealth inferences in the administrative income tax data and is also used to infer who should be surveyed in the SCF.
  • to capitalize income

Examples

  • The exercise does raise questions about why, for example, the SCF top 1 percent wealth shares are above the capitalized values in the early years of the survey, and why the top 0.1 percent shares have been growing much more rapidly in recent years.

    Academic text (2016)
  • By capitalizing the potential income, the financial analyst estimated the business's worth at over a million dollars.

  • Still, buying these assets presents a risk if simply capitalizing the income, as they are likely above market.

    Blog text (20)
  • The value per catch right would be determined in the market for catch rights by the capitalized value of additional profits expected to be earned over time with an extra certificate.

    Academic text (1991)
  • An economist would say that the ugliness or beauty of the surroundings is capitalized into the market value of the property.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Much of the difference between our preferred estimates and the capitalized income top shares can be reconciled by trivial changes to the data, meaning whether or not to calibrate to the FA aggregates or whether to count the top 1 percent versus the top 1.3 percent of families.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The owner further claimed that if Caltrans required the removal of the wallscape, it constituted a taking, and the wallscape generated $50,000 per month in revenue, meaning the future capitalized value of the wallscape exceeded $12 million.

    Blog text (9)
  • The inferences about top wealth shares using capitalized income tax data (Saez and Zucman 2016) indicate much higher and more rapidly growing wealth shares at the top of the wealth distribution, which has led to a substantial widening between levels of estimated wealth concentration in recent years.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The accountant capitalized the company's revenue to gauge its current market value accurately.

  • Investors want to see how future income will be capitalized when valuing the business.

How Valued

to capitalize
  • Specialized
1 7.2
to value
107 3.0
to appraise
8 4.8
estimate
370 2.6

Surface Forms

capitalize infinitive
capitalized past participle
capitalizing present participle
capitalizes third person singular

Morphology

capitalize = capital (transparent) = capital + ize

The meaning is directly derived from 'capital' with the suffix '-ize' indicating the action of estimating or recording as capital.

Etymology

Capitalize comes from capital (from Latin caput 'head'), with capital meaning 'wealth' or 'value', so to capitalize income is to turn expected future money into its present 'capital' value.