noncapital
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]noncapital (not comparable)
- Not capital (in various senses).
- 2007 January 4, Paul Von Zielbauer, “Soldier Reaches Plea Deal in the Killing of 3 Iraqis”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
Noun
[edit]noncapital (plural noncapitals)
- A place that is not a capital.
- 1996, Hill Gates, China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism, page 69:
- We can separate central places into capitals and noncapitals, as Skinner does, but in doing so we will have separated neither economy nor administration.
- (typography) A letter that is not uppercase.