capital expenditure

English

Noun

capital expenditure (countable and uncountable, plural capital expenditures)

1. Funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset.
   • 2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Network News: TfL in "managed decline" - network will be degrading...”, in RAIL, number 953, page 12:

     As passenger numbers rise, the transport authority believes it can return to self-funding daily running costs during 2023, but it said government support for major capital expenditure is essential to prevent further decline.

Translations

funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset

• Catalan: despesa de capital (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資本支出／资本支出

• Finnish: pääomameno
• Irish: caiteachas caipitiúil m
• Russian: капита́льные затра́ты pl (kapitálʹnyje zatráty), капзатра́ты (ru) pl (kapzatráty)

References

• “capital expenditure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.