"capital gain" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: capital gains [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} capital gain (countable and uncountable, plural capital gains)
  1. (economics, business, finance) An increase in the value of a capital asset; an amount by which the value or the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner exceed its cost to the owner. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (Translations): plusvàlua [feminine] (Catalan), guany de capital [masculine] (Catalan), 資本利得 /资本利得 (zīběnlìdé) (Chinese Mandarin), værdistigning [common-gender] (Danish), kapitalgajno (Esperanto), arvonnousu (Finnish), plus-value [feminine] (French), Kapitalertrag [feminine] (German), keuntungan modal (Indonesian), gnóthachan caipitiúil [masculine] (Irish), plusvalenza [feminine] (Italian), laba modal (Malay), mais-valia [feminine] (Portuguese), câștig de capital [neuter] (Romanian), приро́ст капита́ла (priróst kapitála) [masculine] (Russian), plusvalía [feminine] (Spanish), kapitalvinst [common-gender] (Swedish), ennill cylalaf [masculine] (Welsh) Translations (an amount by which the value or the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner exceed its cost to the owner): kapitalindkomst [common-gender] (Danish), myyntivoitto (Finnish), Veräußerungserlös [masculine] (German), Veräußerungsgewinn [masculine] (German), gnóthachan caipitiúil [masculine] (Irish), plusvalenza [feminine] (Italian), zysk kapitałowy [masculine] (Polish), plusvalía [feminine] (Spanish)

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