Capacity
capacity (noun) - quantity that can be produced with available equipment and resources
productive capacity
economic capacity
spare capacity
excess capacity
surplus capacity
high capacity
high capacity hard drives
a high capacity storage device
born with the capacity to cry
considerable surplus capacity
factory running at 85 percent capacity
our national productive capacity
seating capacity
storage capacity
crown capacity
carrying capacity
operate at full capacity
expand capacity
reduce capacity
the auditorium filled to capacity
the tank was filled to capacity with rain water
the elevator was packed to capacity
limited capacity
maximum capacity
small capacity
admiration for the productive capacity of capitalism
limited capacity
capacity for deceit
proved beyond Britain's economic capacity.
excess capacity
take up excess capacity in production
in his official capacity as leader
a capacity stadium crowd
some trains carrying 150% of their capacity
dumping grounds for surplus capacity
the needs and wants of a less developed country are so far in advance of that country's productive capacity
plant out of action for months, reducing the company's productive capacity by half
our productive capacity in manufacturing is simply too low
war did considerable damage to Spain's productive capacity
reduce staff numbers in line with our reduced productive capacity
slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle
growth in the economy's productive capacity
a typical storage cylinder would have a capacity of approximately 50 litres
she has a deep capacity for humane, even spiritual insight
a working environment that optimises productive capacity
maximise the machine's productive capacity and at the same time to minimise possible losses
the innate capacity of the animal
coping with the surplus capacity produced by the factory
highly developed and heavily subsidized productive capacity in industry and agriculture
elimination of inefficient productive capacity
the total productive capacity of the firm
limits to the productive capacity of the small plots of land being leased
Example sentences:
* While we are all born with the capacity to cry, that capacity can be lost.
* Apart from these peak hours, there is often a considerable surplus capacity, with buses and drivers perhaps being inefficiently used.
* The factory is running at 85 per cent capacity, but last year it was achieving no more than 65 per cent.
* A brain that is processing 200 distinct echoes per second might not find surplus capacity for thinking about anything else.
* Classes emerge when the productive capacity of society expands beyond the level required for subsistence.
* Israel has a highly developed and heavily subsidized productive capacity in
industry and agriculture.
* What is now plain is that she has a deep capacity for humane, even spiritual insight.
* Both building professionals and production managers are concerned with providing a working environment that optimises productive capacity.
* The prime objectives of our project have been to maximise the machine's productive capacity and at the same time to minimise possible losses, she added with a grin.
* Without a replacement, the plant could have been out of action for months, reducing the company's productive capacity by half and costing the company a fortune in lost revenue.
* We have a chronic trade deficit, high unemployment, and our productive capacity in manufacturing is simply too low.
* The war had, of course, done considerable damage to Spain's productive capacity, but it had not occasioned total collapse.
* The company's current output is 40,000 units per month, which represents 90% of the company's productive capacity.
* To bring our support structure into line with our reduced productive capacity and to further improve efficiency, we will have to reduce staff numbers.
* The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle.
* Notice that each successive peak and trough is likely to be above all preceding ones because of underlying growth in the economy's productive capacity.
* CNG is pressurised to 200 bar; a typical storage cylinder would have a capacity of approximately 50 litres.
* Furthermore, it is argued, the needs and wants of a less developed country are so far in advance of that country's productive capacity that it is useless to waste resources focusing on them.
* It seems inevitable that redundancies will occur in the ports near the Tunnel as companies shed surplus capacity in an effort to improve productivity.
* More importantly, much of the investment that is taking place simply replicates facilities at other ports and adds to excess capacity in the industry.
* Moreover, catching up cannot explain the slowdown in US productivity which occurred outside the manufacturing sector and which can only partly be explained by the less intense expansion once the excess capacity of the early 1960s had been used up.
* Zande consider that this innate capacity has its seat in a distinct physical organ within the witch's stomach.
* Let's leave the subtle question of defining what a group is, and of how it acquires the capacity for influencing the mental life of the individual, until later.
* He had, still, many contacts in this field and it was yet another approach to coping with the surplus capacity produced by the Carno factory.
* The elimination of inefficient productive capacity is now less frequently achieved through the action of bankruptcy in a competitive market process.
* The sudden reversal of former Maoist policies was not welcome everywhere and there were limits to the productive capacity of the small plots of land being leased.
* In order to boost short-term accounting profits companies may be tempted to cut expenditure on items such as training, research and development, and investment in productive capacity, all of which are essential to a healthy economy, on the basis that they will show a positive return only in the longer term.
* Responses which may be open to the company range from plant closures and mass redundancies, through scaling down operations with some job losses, to investment in alternative productive capacity with partial or full retention of the workforce.
* The expansion of productive capacity already existing in 1880, especially of the heavy industries, was one sign of her growing wealth.
* From the UK's viewpoint, the time was right in 1949 as by then it had the productive capacity to take advantage of the added price competitiveness in dollar markets which devaluation would provide, while needing to rely less heavily on imports from those areas.
* Over such periods high growth rates, and rapid improvements in living standards, are dependent upon an increase in productive capacity rather than on temporary changes in the level of demand.
* However, investment is required to augment productive capacity, and policies to eliminate excessive fluctuations in aggregate demand may provide the best environment for high investment expenditures.
* In an increasingly internationalised economy particularly, governments must be sensitive to how their policies will be perceived by business interests, since an adverse reaction can lead to rapid and massive capital outflows and consequent economic destabilisation, or the relocation of productive capacity to more hospitable environments with an equally obvious effect on jobs and growth.
* As she points out, if wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few rich landowners who buy Rolls Royces and caviar, then allocative efficiency will be consistent with the poor starving and the economy's productive capacity channelled into the manufacture of these luxury items.
* Before the railway no single transport innovation offered instant betterment in terms of speed, regularity, reach and all-weather, all-round capacity.
* The report shows that all classes of cropland are predicted to increase in area up to the end of the millennium, but that large quantities of land (most certainly concentrated in marginal environments) will lose productive capacity.
* Many energy-intensive industries had to reduce their productive capacity, e.g. oil refineries, steel works, while international banks found themselves engaged in a massive petro-dollar recycling operation between surplus and deficit countries.
* Because they are likely to have damaged storage organs and growing points as well, the capacity of the plants to recover is slowed.
* The politics of law and order and the demands for standards, whatever that means, are consistently presented in ways which undermine the capacity of schools to tolerate any forms of deviance.
* It is suggested that where a woman registers unwillingness, a man does have the capacity and should be required to ascertain whether or not her consent is present.
* Shearson yesterday blamed the continued slowdown in market activity and excess capacity for the redundancies.
* The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity, mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed (until the 1987 crash).
* She goes so far as to suggest that if the receiving hospital is allowed to dump excess capacity by charging no more than short-term marginal cost it will, in effect, be stealing part of another District's budget.
* One is the fact that, while in Italy a tightening of the labour market played a key role, in France the strike occurred in the context of the highest levels of unemployment and excess capacity since 1960.
* The crash also pushed down the output-capital ratio, by an average of one tenth, as excess capacity mounted.
* This implies that there is no excess capacity (that is to say, all existing machines must be fully employed and there must be no possibility of overtime or shift working).
* The money supply, measured by a broad definition, should only be allowed to increase at a stable and gradual rate, in line with the growth of the economy's productive capacity.
* Britain's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age.
* And on the various powerful but unseen committees that sit in contemplation of Britain's future defence policy, the consequent evaporation of any strategic productive capacity in less glamorous areas is causing unease.
* The effects of nuclear war vary greatly, he asserted, do you survive with half or less than half your population and productive capacity?
* More and more we realise, as deskilling and lack of training inhibit our economic capacity, that a policy of social opportunity also makes the most obvious economic sense.
* The servicing of perceived strategic needs is outrunning economic capacity.
* He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity.
* Four companies have already signed up to the scheme, and the Centre has the capacity to look after three or four more, it has already had about 20 applications.
* This objective of growth could not, of course, in the early stages, be pursued without restraint, for the capacity crisis prevented the industry from meeting all demands.
* Dominant social elites are not made up simply of capitalists, but also include managers and professionals, whose power rests upon their capacity to exclude others from their property, whether material or intellectual.
* Everyone knows that 1990 will be a tough year, with bookings something like 40 per cent down, the public playing a lament in J. Major, the tour operators bent on improving profit margins instead of competing by price for market share, with heavily reduced capacity particularly at the cheaper end of the range.
* Dolphins have a remarkable capacity for vocal mimicry, and they learn to imitate sounds very accurately and quickly.
* But Earls Court only holds 20,000 and Maine Road football stadium had a capacity of 50,000, so people looking at the crowds at Manchester always saw one empty or thinly populated stand.
* The dinner was being held on the racecourse, in the grandstand with its almost limitless capacity, and the whole affair, Mackie had told me, was frankly only a giant advertisement, but everyone might as well enjoy it.
* On site are fork lifts with maximum lift capacity of 7,000 kg. and maximum reach of 144 ins. and hi-lo scissor lifts with a maximum lift capacity of 7,000 kg. and maximum reach of 218.5 ins (capable of serving the main deck of a B747F).
* Among the other good qualities of this lovable dog are: a strong attachment to his home and a constant readiness to defend it, he is very willing to retrieve and has a good capacity for tracking, he has considerable endurance, likes the water and is fond of children.
* We all vary in our capacity to synthesise cholesterol and in the speed at which we break it down.
* Among these may be listed the capacity for co-operative behaviour and the capacity for uncooperative, competitive action (both conceptual and physical).
* In terms of their income, they are less dependent on the vagaries of the labour market, since the major part of their income today is guaranteed by the state, and is paid to them as a right.
* Now although there will obviously be occasions when this belief is warranted, when learners are of an age, for example, at which they would not have the capacity or disposition for analytic self-reflection, there seems no good reason for supposing that the belief is universally valid.
* The atmosphere has 200 times the capacity to hold oxygen than has sea water and much larger colonies of beneficial bacteria can be supported by a dry type filter.
* Her own physical coming down process takes longer than yours, and unlike most men, her capacity for further climaxes is theoretically unlimited.
* This adds two features: the capacity to branch in different directions and the capacity to keep a record of what the user does.
* In the late 1980s, the European steel industry had an enormous over-capacity, partly because it had been undercut by Korean, Japanese, and other producers in the Pacific, partly because of a wave of added Italian steel capacity in the 1970s.
* You should be aware at the outset that, whilst MAS can provide a comprehensive deal management and advisory service, it will operate in the capacity of your professional advisers and so cannot operate independently from yourselves at any stage in the deal process.
able to act in the dual capacity of broker and dealer.
* Their independence reduced the executive's capacity for interfering in the legal process.
* Such a political and economic environment had enabled the USA to increase its productive capacity over the previous hundred and fifty years to become the world's greatest economic power.
* This economic system, which allowed the landowning classes to take a disproportionate share of the productive capacity of the economy, was based upon traditional craft skills using fairly primitive tools and it was labour intensive.
* Although these examples suggest that the French wars did not impoverish England, clearly the inflow of bullion was not directed into economic developments which increased the country's productive capacity.
* The second issue is more explicitly concerned with the violator's economic capacity to comply, as gauged by common-sense assessment.
* Khrushchev asserted in March 1960 that'; the Soviet Union is now the world's strongest military power' ( Izvestiia , 2 March 1960) and, although it was recognised that Soviet economic capacity was then inferior to that of the United States, it was confidently predicted that the socialist nations would have outstripped the West within a decade.
* This strategy is clearly of greater use to people with a limited technological and economic capacity.
