capitalize

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To use as or convert into capital.
• intransitive verb To supply with capital or investment funds.
• intransitive verb To authorize the issue of a certain amount of capital stock of.
• intransitive verb To convert (debt) into capital stock or shares.
• intransitive verb To calculate the current value of (a future stream of earnings or cash flows).
• intransitive verb To include (expenditures) in business accounts as assets instead of expenses.
• intransitive verb To write or print in capital letters.
• intransitive verb To begin a word with a capital letter.
• intransitive verb To turn something to one's advantage; benefit.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To begin with a capital letter: as, to capitalize the first word of a sentence. Also spelled capitalise, and abbreviated to cap.
• To convert into capital or into an equivalent capital sum.
• To convert (floating debt) into stock or shares. Also spelled capitalise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
• transitive verb To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)
• transitive verb To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
• transitive verb To supply capital for (an enterprise), especially by selling capital stock.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive In writing or editing, to write in capital letters, in upper case, either the entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof.
• verb transitive, business, finance To contribute or acquire capital (money or other resources) for.
• verb transitive, finance To convert into capital, ie to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.
• verb transitive, accounting, taxation To treat as capital, not as an expense.
• verb intransitive To profit or to obtain an advantage.
• verb intransitive To seize, as an opportunity; to obtain a benefit.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb compute the present value of a business or an income
• verb supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders
• verb convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital
• verb draw advantages from
• verb consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses
• verb write in capital letters