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personal capital

noun

Definitions

  1. Financial resources or other wealth belonging to a particular person, especially when…

    Financial resources or other wealth belonging to a particular person, especially when used for investment purposes.

    • Having two unsold houses on the market for a long time "has eaten a lot of our personal capital," Alexander said.
    • He could spend shareholders’ capital acquiring massive stretches of land, then only put up his own personal capital to invest in the wells drilled into the best parts of those plays.

  2. Good reputation, credibility, or influence.

    • No U.S. president should invest his personal capital by inaugurating direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders when those talks are set to abort weeks later.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA