circulating capital

American  

noun

1. the portion of capital goods that consists of goods in process, inventories of finished goods, and raw materials.

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Etymology

Origin of circulating capital

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

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circulating capital

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

In the future the planned profit level for enterprises, differentiated by branch and subbranch, will be calculated in relation to the fixed and circulating capital employed rather than in relation to cost.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier

But these changes in fixed capital are comparatively few; whereas the whole or nearly the whole of the circulating capital is changed every year or two.

From Political economy by W. Stanley Jevons

For that last labour there was circulating capital ready to be exchanged.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight

Is such a sack fixed or circulating capital?

From Political economy by W. Stanley Jevons