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capital expense

NOUN
capital expenditure
Synonyms


NOUN
capital investment
Synonyms


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It gave firms computing capacity without the old capital expense.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

By comparison, machines look like a one-time capital expense — set it and forget it, is the goal.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2024

That’s roughly $8.75 per ride so far — high by the standards of public mass transit, but still less than half what Seattle’s South Lake Union streetcar is costing, without any of the capital expense.

From Seattle Times Jan. 27, 2024

In a deregulated power market, developers have struggled with the enormous capital expense of building a power reactor.

From Science Magazine Nov. 10, 2023

Where capital expense became a significant factor, larger commercial farms—known as “bonanza farms”—began to develop.

From Textbooks Dec. 30, 2014




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