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Business Definition for: Cap

  • an upper limit such as on a rate of interest for a loan

Wiktionary Definition for: Cap

  • A close-fitting head covering either without a brim or with a peak
  • A special head covering to indicate rank, occupation etc.
  • An academic mortarboard
  • A protective cover or seal
  • A crown for covering a tooth
  • The summit of a mountain etc.
  • An artificial upper limit or ceiling
  • (informal) An uppercase letter, abbreviated from "capital"
  • The top part of a mushroom
  • A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
  • Ex:'' Billy spent all morning firing '''caps''' with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy. ''
  • A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
  • Ex:'' He wired the '''cap''' to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely. ''
  • soccer An international appearance
  • Ex:''Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.''
  • Cricket The cap worn by players as protection from the sun; the cap awarded to a player when first selected to play for a side
  • cattag slang a bullet used to shoot someone; generally used in the phrase 'put a cap in (someone's) ass'
  • (informal) To convert text to uppercase
  • To cover or seal with a cap
  • To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
  • To lie over or on top of something
  • To surpass or outdo
  • To set an upper limit on something
  • # Cricket To select a player to play for a specified side
  • An abbreviation for capture
  • cattag slang To shoot someone
  • Ex: '' If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna '''cap''' his ass. ''
  • head
  • seal
  • stamp
  • head
  • a male goat

Additional Resources

Derby, N.Y.-Based Company Manufactures Baseball All-Star Cap.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Jul. 8--Derby-based New Era Cap Co. is in the final innings of cap-making blitz to manufacture a new limited edition All-Star 2000 baseball cap. The new cap line includes head wear representing each of the 60 Major League Baseball stars who are participating in...
Tags: baseball, MLB, SALES, team
Research articles 2000-07-09
Industry Makes Another Plea To Lift Spectrum Cap.(Industry Trend or Event)
WASHINGTON--CITIA says it's useless, but several carriers want it to stick around for a few more years. The item: the spectrum cap. The forum: the FCC, which received comments on the possibility of lifting the cap--a move that could happen by the end of the year. ...
Tags: antitrust, carrier, commission, CTIA, FCC, industry, Leap Wireless International Inc., spectrum, Sprint PCS, WIRELESS
Research articles 2001-04-23
Spectrum Cap Removal Gains Momentum.(Government Activity)
The long-imposed cap on the amount of spectrum a provider can own in a particular market may soon be as outdated as the telex machine. As the FCC delves into the question of whether to lift the cap, lawmakers also are discussing the...
Tags: FCC, Government, industry, spectrum
Research articles 2001-04-16
Cap Gemini Announces CAP ASAP 2000 at SAP's SAPPHIRE® '97 User Conference
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 2, 1997--Cap Gemini's Package Based Solutions division announced today its new offering, CAP ASAP 2000, a methodology for AcceleratedSAPTM implementations. CAP ASAP 2000 leverages ASAP's AcceleratedSAP program and is a comprehensive set of methodologies and tools designed to incorporate best practices for implementing SAPTM's R/3TM in...
Tags: Capgemini, SAP AG
Research articles 1997-09-02
CAP: CAP welcomes e-advertisers into self-regulatory sy system.
M2 PRESSWIRE-25 November 1999-CAP: CAP welcomes e-advertisers into self-regulatory system C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:241199 The Committee of Advertising Practice CAP today approves the Internet Advertising Bureau UK and Ireland's IAB application to join the advertising self-regulatory system. ...
Tags: advertisement, Interactive Advertising Bureau
Research articles 1999-11-25
NHL players, owners still talking; Roenick OK with salary cap
NEW YORK AFP — With the opportunity to save the National Hockey League season at the 11th hour, the players need to seriously consider accepting a salary cap, said all-star centre Jeremy Roenick. "Maybe we can survive with a salary cap," Philadelphia Flyers Roenick told ESPN television. "Lots of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, league, NHL, salary
Research articles 2005-02-04
Cap fanciers. (Network Affiliated Stations Alliance lobbies Congress against changing multiple ownership rule) (Brief Article)
Cap fanciers Cap fanciers
Tags: network, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1995-03-06
Cap Gemini announces opening of Cap Gemini Asia
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 16, 1996--Cap Gemini, Europe's leading computer services and consulting company, announces the opening of Cap Gemini Asia.
Tags: Capgemini
Research articles 1996-10-16
Cap Gemini America Appoints New Oracle Practice Leader
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 7, 1999--Cap Gemini America LLC, the US subsidiary of Cap Gemini Group, one of the world's largest IT consulting firms, today announced the promotion of Jeffrey Shepard to Vice President of Cap Gemini America's Oracle Practice.
Tags: Capgemini, leader, Oracle Corp.
Research articles 1999-01-07
40. Cap On, Cap Off
In 1998 and 2000, when high-tech companies asked Congress to raise the cap on H-1B visas temporary permits that allow qualified foreigners to work in the United States, nary a legislator blinked. The economy was strong, dotcoms were going concerns, and the cap rose?to 115,000 in 1998 and to 195,000...
Tags: H-1B, U.S., U.S. Congress, worker
Research articles 2003-01-01
Salary cap lets teams legally go over the top
The Washington Redskins set a single-season spending record with a payroll of $118 million for the 2004 season. But how is that possible when the NFL salary cap was $80.5 million a team? Cap computations include all salaries and applicable bonuses at full value each year, but a signing...
Tags: Benefits, NFL, salary, team
Research articles 2005-04-28
Cap ex headed up - The Antenna - Infineon - Brief Article
GERMAN DRAM MAKER INFINEON'S $1 BILLION CAP EX PLANS for next year may seem spectacularly surprising, given today's climate, but the No. 2 DRAM maker didn't consider the 55 percent year-over-year increase to be aggressive. Yet the increase in its cap ex budget clearly means the company intends to continue...
Tags: Infineon Technologies AG
Research articles 2002-11-18
QBs have arm room under salary cap
Quarterbacks were the first players chosen in seven of the last eight NFL drafts. But even as their salaries have gone up, they've generally not kept pace with the increases in the salary cap. In 1998, Peyton Manning's contract -- with an average per year value of $6.33 million...
Tags: Benefits, NFL, salary
Research articles 2005-07-01
Ravens may have answer for freeing up cap room
The Denver Broncos face decisions forced by the NFL's salary cap on whether to continue tinkering or undergo a major overhaul. One way to deal with the cap has been taken by teams like the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers. They admitted it was time to start...
Tags: Benefits, Denver, NFL, salary
Research articles 2003-01-05
We're In a Mid-Cap Rally
Henry Bee submits: So is this the Santa clause/year-end/super-bear rally we've been waiting for? The S&P 500 has just gained 18% in the past five trading days. "Does it have legs," ask fund managers everywhere who are suffering from performance-anxiety attacks. Well, we're currently in what I call a...
Tags: US Market, Henry Bee
External links 2008-11-30
Spectrum Cap: To Lift Or Not To Lift.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
The FCC may relax the spectrum cap soon, even though there are concerns about there still being too much concentration of frequencies by carriers within the industry. The commission likely will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking by year's end to inquire whether enough competition exists...
Tags: FCC, Government, spectrum
Research articles 2000-10-30
The Trajectory of Property Market Cap Rates: The Case of Apartments
This report reviews and clusters the various forces that drive movements in property cap rates. A quadrant conceptual framework is developed to gauge the interplay of both property and capital market influences on cap rates. Based on this four quadrant methodology, the likely trajectory of cap rates is presented. The...
Tags: Trajectory, Market Capitalization, Deutsche Bank Group, Apartment Property Sector, Investment, VOIP, Financial Services, Finance, Telecommunications, Networking
White papers 2004-01-01
Nissan Frontier cap.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
SNUGTOP offers a Cab-Hi cap for the new 4-door Nissan Frontier. The Cab-Hi's roofline follows the Nissan factory design, and this cap includes all of ... SNUGTOP offers a Cab-Hi cap for the new 4-door Nissan Frontier. The Cab-Hi's roofline follows the Nissan factory...
Tags: Frontier, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2000-03-01
Urge to cap out spurs 19% NHL payroll boost
During the 2004-05 lockout, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman insisted on a leaguewide salary cap to go with a team cap, saying teams would be drawn to the top number like "a magnet." Two years later, Bettman's assessment has proved to be true as 16 of the 30 teams are within...
Tags: FINANCE, NHL, payroll, revenue, team
Research articles 2006-10-19
Mid-cap IT cos clicking faster than the big daddies.
Feb. 14--MUMBAI, India -- Indian mid-cap IT companies are scripting bigger success stories than large cap firms in terms of growth in market capitalisation. The top performing mid-cap companies (with market capitalisation between $100m and $1bn) have outperformed their larger counterparts in terms...
Tags: Economic Times, FINANCE, India, Investment, Mumbai, Strategy
Research articles 2006-02-14
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