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VENTURE CAPITAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
Synonyms:
risk capital; venture capital
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("venture capital" is a kind of...):
capital; working capital (assets available for use in the production of further assets)
Derivation:
venture capitalist (a speculator who makes money available for innovative projects (especially in high technology))
Context examples:
The area of your life that will be accented will be other people’s money—commissions, royalties, cash advances, gifts, insurance payouts, bonuses, venture capital, scholarships and university financial aid, mortgages and bank loans, inheritances, and money like that.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
This new moon will light your eighth house of other people’s money, ruling such areas as venture capital, mortgage, court settlements, insurance claims, university financial aid, commissions, bonuses, royalties, and similar funds that tend to come to you outside of salary and that require an application (or business plan to show investors).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The eighth house rules venture capital, commissions, bonuses, licensing fees, royalties, insurance payouts, bank loans, lines of credit, inheritances, mortgages, child support, scholarships and university student aid, and other such money that comes to you outside of salary.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Specifically, you will do well in one or more of these areas—by a payment of commission, royalty, cash advance, licensing fee, bonus, or such outside sources as an inheritance, insurance claim payment, scholarship or university financial aid, bank loan or line of credit, venture capital, credit card, mortgage or refinanced mortgage, divorce or court settlement, or prize winnings.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
