"capital expenditure" meaning in English

See capital expenditure in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: capital expenditures [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} capital expenditure (countable and uncountable, plural capital expenditures)
  1. Funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset. Wikipedia link: capital expenditure Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset): despesa de capital [feminine] (Catalan), caiteachas caipitiúil [masculine] (Irish), капита́льные затра́ты (kapitálʹnyje zatráty) [plural] (Russian), капзатра́ты (kapzatráty) [plural] (Russian)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "capital expenditures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "capital expenditure (countable and uncountable, plural capital expenditures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Network News: TfL in \"managed decline\" - network will be degrading...”, in RAIL, number 953, page 12",
          "text": "As passenger numbers rise, the transport authority believes it can return to self-funding daily running costs during 2023, but it said government support for major capital expenditure is essential to prevent further decline.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset."
      ],
      "id": "en-capital_expenditure-en-noun-5j~wNHEM",
      "links": [
        [
          "Funds",
          "funds"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ],
        [
          "acquire",
          "acquire"
        ],
        [
          "upgrade",
          "upgrade"
        ],
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ],
        [
          "term",
          "term"
        ],
        [
          "asset",
          "asset"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "despesa de capital"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "caiteachas caipitiúil"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kapitálʹnyje zatráty",
          "sense": "funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "капита́льные затра́ты"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kapzatráty",
          "sense": "funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "капзатра́ты"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "capital expenditure"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "capital expenditure"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "capital expenditures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "capital expenditure (countable and uncountable, plural capital expenditures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Network News: TfL in \"managed decline\" - network will be degrading...”, in RAIL, number 953, page 12",
          "text": "As passenger numbers rise, the transport authority believes it can return to self-funding daily running costs during 2023, but it said government support for major capital expenditure is essential to prevent further decline.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Funds",
          "funds"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ],
        [
          "acquire",
          "acquire"
        ],
        [
          "upgrade",
          "upgrade"
        ],
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ],
        [
          "term",
          "term"
        ],
        [
          "asset",
          "asset"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "capital expenditure"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "despesa de capital"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "caiteachas caipitiúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kapitálʹnyje zatráty",
      "sense": "funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "капита́льные затра́ты"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kapzatráty",
      "sense": "funds to get/upgrade a longterm asset",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "капзатра́ты"
    }
  ],
  "word": "capital expenditure"
}

Download raw JSONL data for capital expenditure meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.