capital outlay

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noun
  1. a capital expenditure.

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How to use capital outlay in a sentence

  • "Put that down," Mrs. Bishop had said; and the item of capital outlay had gone down on a half-sheet of note-paper.

    Sally Bishop | E. Temple Thurston
  • The merchants of the North pursued the slave trade so relentlessly because it paid such enormous profits on the capital outlay.

    The American Empire | Scott Nearing