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noncapital

noncapital adjective: not capital (in various senses).

Adjective

noncapital (not comparable)

  1. Not capital (in various senses).
    • The terms of the plea arrangement will allow the soldier, Specialist Juston R. Graber, originally charged with noncapital murder, to be convicted of aggravated assault and to receive a nine-month prison sentence in exchange for his testifying against three other members of his squad, the lawyers...2007 January 4, Paul Von Zielbauer, “Soldier Reaches Plea Deal in the Killing of 3 Iraqis”, in New York Times

Noun

noncapital (plural noncapitals)

  1. A place that is not a capital.
    • We can separate central places into capitals and noncapitals, as Skinner does, but in doing so we will have separated neither economy nor administration.1996, Hill Gates, China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism, page 69
  2. A letter that is not uppercase.

Forms of noncapital

pluralnoncapitals

Origin of noncapital

From non- + capital.

Questions about noncapital

What does noncapital mean?
Noncapital means not capital (in various senses).
What part of speech is noncapital?
Noncapital can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near noncapital in the dictionary

  1. noncanvassing
  2. noncapable
  3. noncapacitated
  4. noncapillarity
  5. noncapillary
  6. noncapital
  7. noncapitalism
  8. noncapitalist
  9. noncapitalistic
  10. noncapitalists
  11. noncapitalizable

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