working capital

noun

1. the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.

2. Accounting.,  current assets minus current liabilities.

3. liquid capital assets as distinguished from fixed capital assets.

working capital

noun

1. accounting current assets minus current liabilities

2. current or liquid assets

3. that part of the capital of a business enterprise available for operations

Word History and Origins

Origin of working capital¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The last major update on Super Micro’s performance came in August, when CEO Charles Liang told investors the company lacked the working capital to expand production as quickly as he would have liked.

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Sylvi Listhaug has called for the abolition of the wealth tax and cutting other taxes too, while Solberg's conservatives want to remove the wealth tax on what they call "working capital", such as shares.

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Only its president and treasurer knew that the cordage trust was hobbled by overproduction, a lack of credit and the evaporation of its working capital.

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Money management is something that Griffin is learning through part-time work in the University of California investment office, which controls the UC system’s roughly $170-billion portfolio of investments in retirement, endowment, working capital and cash.

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The university’s $169-billion investment portfolio includes funds for its retirement plan, endowment and working capital.

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Related Words

• venture capital