capital outlay
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
United were already committed to a significant capital outlay on Old Trafford.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2022
But the two sources said the capital outlay would be more than 7 billion euros if UniCredit were to take on the largest possible portion of MPS.
From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2021
For farmers who could not always correlate time savings with financial advantage, the large capital outlay seemed unnecessary or even unwise.
From Frying Pan Farm by Pryor, Elizabeth Brown
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