Usually means: Surrendering or yielding under pressure.
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  1. capitulation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. capitulation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capitulation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capitulation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capitulation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Capitulation, capitulation: Wordnik
  7. capitulation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. capitulation: Wiktionary
  9. capitulation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. capitulation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. capitulation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. capitulation: Dictionary.com
  13. capitulation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. capitulation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Capitulation (surrender), Capitulation (treaty), Capitulation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Capitulation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. capitulation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. capitulation: Rhymezone
  19. Capitulation, capitulation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. capitulation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. capitulation: Free Dictionary
  22. capitulation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. capitulation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Capitulation: Investopedia
  5. capitulation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capitulation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (capitulation)

noun:  A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
noun:  The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.
noun:  The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
noun:  An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.

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