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Money that works while you sleep, then asks for a raise.
means Wealth—money, assets, or resources—used to generate more wealth, or by extension the most important or chief thing (as in a capital city or capital crime).
from From Latin 'caput,' meaning 'head'—the same root that gives us 'captain' and 'decapitate.' Something 'capital' was literally 'of the head': chief, foremost, at the top. The financial sense grew from this idea of a 'head' sum—the principal amount standing at the top of an account, as opposed to the interest trickling out below. So the money that works while you sleep was, etymologically, always the boss.
- latin root
- From caput, meaning head, as in cattle counted by head
- city sense
- Same word once meant your richest, most vital city
- das kapital
- Marx's critique became capitalism's most-cited bestseller
- capital crime
- Same root gave us beheading, the literal head punishment
- human capital
- Economists rebranded you as a depreciating asset
beijing — capital of china, home to the forbidden city
paris — capital of france, on the seine river
tokyo — capital of japan, largest metropolitan area in the world