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capital outlay

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noun

  1. a capital expenditure.


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Only about a quarter of this goes toward capital outlay for weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Boston Dynamics will also lease the robots, hoping to bring in customers who might balk at an upfront capital outlay.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

Details including potential capital outlay is long awaited for a factory in Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon that Tesla announced in March.

From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2023

United were already committed to a significant capital outlay on Old Trafford.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2022

At a more advanced stage of development, the saving of capital outlay on hoisting and pumping equipment, at a time when capital is costly to secure, is often sufficient justification for a tunnel entry.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

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