small-cap

[ smawl-kap ]

adjective

1. designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of under $1 billion: considered to have more growth potential and higher investment risk.

Example Sentences

Nearly every woman wore a small cap or a small round straw hat with a ribbon round it.

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It was, after all, but a small cap now, and had but little of the weeping willow left in its construction.

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The Abenakis enclose their heads in a small cap embroidered with beads or ornamented with brocade.

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He took off a small cap which enclosed his light hair, which then fell in thick curls down the finest neck I ever beheld.

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A small cap, delicately plaited, covers the fore-part of her head, and a rich wide band of pearls and gems surmounts it.

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