venture capital vs capital

capital vs venture capital

venture capital and capital both are nouns.

venture capital is not an adjective while capital is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
venture capital	Yes	No	No	No
capital	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, capital is a hypernym of venture capital; that is, capital is a word with a broader meaning than venture capital:

venture capital: wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
capital: assets available for use in the production of further assets

Other hypernyms of venture capital include working capital.

venture capital (noun)	capital (noun)
wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises	the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
	one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
	a seat of government
	a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
	wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
	assets available for use in the production of further assets

venture capital (adjective)	capital (adjective)
	of principal importance
	first-rate
	uppercase

Difference between venture capital and capital

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