{
  "id": "capital.financial",
  "term": "capital",
  "sense": "financial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "capital",
  "domain": "finance",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "money that is used to create more value",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "money.economic",
      "value.worth",
      "create.production",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "money and value interact through use and creation, enabling the generation of additional worth",
    "novel_properties": [
      "self-expanding value",
      "productive application of resources",
      "value creation beyond exchange"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Warren Buffett invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis, acquiring preferred shares and warrants.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars Curiosity rover cost $2.5 billion to build and operates using solar-powered systems to conduct geological research.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, the Linux Foundation hosted critical open-source infrastructure development, funded by member dues from tech companies.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "money.economic",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "resource.material",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "capital",
    "capitalized",
    "capitalizing",
    "capitals"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts create.production and use.application to align record with definition. Definition remains unchanged as it correctly captures the emergent concept."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-capital.financial"
}