draw advantages from
"he is capitalizing on her mistake"
"she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover"
supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders
"The startup founders secured their initial funding by having angel investors provide equity while simultaneously taking out loans from the bank to fully capitalize the new enterprise."
write in capital letters
"The sign painter capitalized every letter on the billboard to make the brand name stand out from a distance."
compute the present value of a business or an income
"Before investing, we need to capitalize the future cash flows to determine if the startup is truly worth its current asking price."
consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses
"The accountant insisted that we capitalize the cost of the new machinery instead of writing it off immediately as an expense."
convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital
"The board decided to capitalize the company's substantial reserves by reinvesting them directly into new machinery and expansion projects."
In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.
"The editor told me to capitalize every instance of our company name throughout the document."