capital expenditure
capital expenditure noun: funds that are spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset.
Noun
capital expenditure (countable and uncountable, plural capital expenditures)
- Funds that are spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset.
- 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.2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Network News: TfL in "managed decline" - network will be degrading...”, in RAIL, number 953, page 12
- Meta has invested heavily in generative AI, with the majority of its planned $72bn in capital expenditure this year earmarked for data centres and servers.2025 June 14, “Meta invests $15bn in scale AI as it builds ‘superintelligence’ team”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12
- Synonyms:
- capital expense, CAPEX
capital expenditure meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Thai
capital expenditure in Tamil
- முதலீட்டுச செலவு, முதலீட்டுச் செலவு, மூலதனச் செலவினம், மூலதனச் செலவு
capital expenditure in Kannada
- ಬಂಡವಾಳವೆಚ್ಚ, ಮೂಲಧನದ ವ್ಯಯ, ಬಂಡವಾಳ ಸ್ವರೂಪದ ವೆಚ್ಚ
capital expenditure in Thai
- funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
- รายจ่ายประเภททุน
Synonyms of capital expenditure
Forms of capital expenditure
| plural | capital expenditures |
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Questions about capital expenditure
- What does capital expenditure mean?
- Capital expenditure means funds that are spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset.
- What is capital expenditure in Tamil?
- Capital expenditure in Tamil is முதலீட்டுச செலவு, முதலீட்டுச் செலவு, மூலதனச் செலவினம். See Capital expenditure meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is capital expenditure?
- Capital expenditure is a noun.
- What is the plural of capital expenditure?
- The plural of capital expenditure is capital expenditures.
Words near capital expenditure in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: capital expenditure (page history and authors); capital expenditure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); capital expenditure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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