noncapital

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adjective

Not capital (in various senses).

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Meanings

adjectivenoncapital (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot capital (in various senses).
    1 more example

    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 said.

    2007 January 4, Paul Von Zielbauer, “Soldier Reaches Plea Deal in the Killing of 3 Iraqis”, in New York Times
nounnoncapital (plural noncapitals)

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. mediaA letter that is not uppercase.

Origin

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APA

noncapital. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncapital

MLA

“noncapital.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncapital. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noncapital,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncapital.

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