capitalizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of capitalize
as in subsidizes
to provide money for several investors agreed to capitalize the new venture

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalizes
  1. subsidizes
  2. funds
  3. finances
  4. underwrites
  5. supports
  6. endows
Verb
  • As the government subsidizes these sectors, the price of goods and services rises.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Iceland, long a leader in gender equality, subsidizes childcare, legislates equal wages, gives paid parental leave to both men and women, and has a gender equality act that includes a quota for women on boards.
    — Christine Ledbetter, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of subsidizes
Verb
  • Aora also partners with rePurpose Global so that for every product sold, the company funds the removal from nature of nine times that item’s weight in plastic waste.
    — Eliza Thompson, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The organization paying for it may also receive only part of its value, as when a hospital funds a system that benefits patients and insurers.
    — Hani Assi, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of funds
Verb
  • Indeed, the safety net ultimately depends on the economy that finances it.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Although labs such as DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are private, the state supervises them at every stage and, increasingly, finances them.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of finances
Verb
  • The Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation underwrites most of the cost of our three performance spaces, equipment, and support services.
    — Brian Beirne, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • But that spread is the distance between the single best market in America and the average one, measured after the year ended, and nobody underwrites to hindsight.
    — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of underwrites
Verb
  • The award supports development of its wider Frenzy engine family.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Connecticut For All, a progressive coalition of more than 60 faith, labor and other civic organizations, also supports this option.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of supports
Verb
  • This extreme foregrounding of character in terms of action endows the cast with a retrospective air of typecasting, in a positive sense—the actors seem made for their parts, coalescing with their characters temperamentally.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The catharsis of moments like this—and the unpredictability with which they’re deployed—endows Oen Sujet’s music with delight worth chasing, but the climb doesn’t always feel equal to the drop.
    — Maxie Younger, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026
Definition of endows
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