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Capitol Hill en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. The hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol is located, where Congress holds its sessions.
    • She spent a great deal of time culturing new contacts on Capitol Hill.
  2. A neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
  3. (metonymically) the United States Congress
    • A political reality of Capitol Hill is that the party in control has always taken care of its own and, as the minority sees it, gives them "the shaft." 2007, John W. Dean, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, page 30:
    • Republicans on Capitol Hill, who were gearing up to use Graeme as evidence that Democrats have overexpanded the health program to include families wealthy enough to afford private insurance, have backed off. 2007 October 10, David M. Herszenhorn, “Capitol Feud: A 12-Year-Old Is the Fodder”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
    • At the same time, the failure of conservatives to invest in Capitol Hill lobbying that could be coordinated with their grass-roots efforts represents a strategic misallocation of resources. 2000, Jeffrey M. Berry, The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups, page 102:
    • Let me put it this way: The girl in question was no novice to Washington nor to the ways of Capitol Hill. 1975, Ralph de Toledano, Hit & Run: The Rise--And Fall?--Of Ralph Nader, page 120:
    • The Ninety-fourth Congress would be emphatically Democratic, and Ford's base of support on Capitol Hill would be narrower and weaker. 2005, Yanek Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s, page 62:
    • Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries have all been dressed down on Capitol Hill by lawmakers upset with their companies. 2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023:
    • I cannot count how many letters I received from Capitol Hill in the 1990s outlining one scheme or another to spend more or tax less 2007, Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, page 233:
  4. A neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, United States.
  5. A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.

Synonyms

Cap Hill (neighborhood in Seattle) · Cap Hill (neighborhood in Denver)

Translations (12)

fr Capitole (the hill in Washington, DC) · de Capitol Hill (the hill in Washington, DC) · ru Капито́лий (the hill in Washington, DC) · de Kapitol (the hill in Washington, DC) · ar كَابِيتُول هِيل (the hill in Washington, DC) · cmn 國會山 /国会山 (the hill in Washington, DC) · ja キャピトル・ヒル (the hill in Washington, DC) · fr Capitol Hill (the hill in Washington, DC) · ru Капитоли́йский холм (the hill in Washington, DC) · fi Capitol Hill (the hill in Washington, DC) · ka კაპიტოლიუმის ბორცვი (the hill in Washington, DC) · fr colline du Capitole (the hill in Washington, DC)