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Decapitalizes vs Recapitalizes - What's the difference?

decapitalizes | recapitalizes |

As verbs the difference between decapitalizes and recapitalizes

is that decapitalizes is (decapitalize) while recapitalizes is (recapitalize).

decapitalizes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (decapitalize)

    • decapitalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * decapitalise

    Verb

    (decapitaliz)
  • To uncapitalize .
  • (legal) To remove (something's) status as a capital crime; to cause (something) to no longer be a capital crime.
  • * 2009 , Stuart Banner, The Death Penalty: an American history , page 131:
    • In 1801 Connecticut decapitalized arson, but only where no victim's life had been placed in danger.

    Synonyms

    * uncapitalize

    See also

    * decriminalize

    recapitalizes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (recapitalize)

    • recapitalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK) recapitalise

    Verb

  • To change how a corporation is structured.