capital expense

Example Sentences

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“But as the consumption meters start going on, you start to recoup a lot more of your capital expense and start to see gross margins significantly improve.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

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