working capital

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

  2. Accounting. current assets minus current liabilities.

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

Origin of working capital

1
First recorded in 1900–05

Words Nearby working capital

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How to use working capital in a sentence

  • Another important thing: there must be a large working capital, for the company do not mean to be idle.

    The Abominations of Modern Society | Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
  • In fact, these tendencies should be the working capital of the teacher, the starting points in her teaching.

    The Vitalized School | Francis B. Pearson
  • At last people began to understand that Knut had brought to Tingvold what no one had had there before, working capital!

    The Bridal March; One Day | Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson

British Dictionary definitions for working capital

working capital

noun
  1. accounting current assets minus current liabilities

  2. current or liquid assets

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

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