capital outlay
a capital expenditure.
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How to use capital outlay in a sentence
This process frustrated the utilities, who prefer to recoup the money they spend on investments — and get the increased return they are guaranteed for additional capital outlays — as quickly as possible.
Natural Gas Is Getting Cheaper. Thousands Are Paying More To Heat Their Homes Anyway. | by Lucas Manfield and Ken Ward Jr., Mountain State Spotlight | April 17, 2021 | ProPublicaThe coronavirus has impacted revenues at a wide swath of companies, and there’s a significant capital outlay to transitioning to an automated system.
Business could be on the precipice of an automation explosion | Chris Morris | January 17, 2021 | FortuneThe proposals sanctioned by the Central Authority go up to a capital outlay of 350 per bed.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney WebbThis point is often neglected in respect of capital outlay, which once made cannot be recalled.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. RipleyAnother reason exists in the fact that the average housewife does not distinguish between annual and capital outlay.
Household Administration | Various
"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 ThurstonThe 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
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