Paying off debt puts downward pressure on interest rates and frees capital for more productive uses.

We can't free enough capital to buy new sites and develop the earlier ones as we'd like.

They contended that the measure would free capital for investment while maintaining an adequate cushion to insure that companies could meet their pension obligations.

Banks are cutting costs and consolidating, freeing capital to be paid to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks.

The government would reduce its outstanding debt, freeing capital for private investment.

This would free capital from exposure to inefficient or corrupt government structures, unleash local entrepreneurial potential and hopefully improve economic growth.

German banks favor it, too, because it frees capital that they can put to better use.

While a capital-gains tax reduction would free capital for investment, the desired result is by no means certain.

The national debt is falling, freeing capital for investment in private industry.

The lowering of the capital gains tax will free locked-up capital and result in increased revenue to the Government.