noun · neutral
capacity
/kəˈpæsəti/ca·PA·ci·ty
Band 7+task2speaking
The maximum amount something can contain, or someone's ability to do something
Examples
“The stadium has a seating capacity of 50,000.”
“She has the capacity to manage complex projects.”
“Organisations have different capacities to respond to emergencies.”
Band 8 sentence
“The stadium was upgraded to increase seating capacity and improve spectator safety.”
Collocations
- storage capacity
- capacity to + verb
- in capacity of
Word family
capacity nouncapacities noun (plural)
Common mistakes
The factory has large capacity.→The factory has a large capacity.
many capacity→many capacities / a lot of capacity
Say it for a higher band
5ability→6potential→7+capacity
Synonyms
ability
Easily confused
ability
“The hospital's capacity to treat patients was exceeded during the outbreak.”
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