"working capital" meaning in English

See working capital in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} working capital (uncountable)
  1. (business, accounting) Amount of capital a business or other entity has available for running its daily operations, calculated as current assets minus current liabilities. Wikipedia link: working capital Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Accounting, Business Synonyms: WC Translations (Translations): pracovní kapitál [masculine] (Czech), werkkapitaal [neuter] (Dutch), käyttöpääoma (Finnish), fonds de roulement [masculine, plural] (French), κυκλοφορούν ενεργητικό (kykloforoún energitikó) [neuter] (Greek), capitale operativo [masculine] (Italian), capitale circolante [masculine] (Italian), kapitał obrotowy [masculine] (Polish), kapitał pracujący [masculine] (Polish), capital de giro [masculine] (Portuguese), rörelsekapital [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-working_capital-en-noun-I8ceAnCm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with collocations Topics: accounting, business, finance

Download JSON data for working capital meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "working capital (uncountable)",
      "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": "English terms with collocations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with collocations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Accounting",
          "orig": "en:Accounting",
          "parents": [
            "Finance",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Business",
          "orig": "en:Business",
          "parents": [
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "working capital requirement",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Amount of capital a business or other entity has available for running its daily operations, calculated as current assets minus current liabilities."
      ],
      "id": "en-working_capital-en-noun-I8ceAnCm",
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "accounting",
          "accounting#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "current asset",
          "current asset"
        ],
        [
          "current liabilities",
          "current liability"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business, accounting) Amount of capital a business or other entity has available for running its daily operations, calculated as current assets minus current liabilities."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "WC"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pracovní kapitál"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "werkkapitaal"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "käyttöpääoma"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "fonds de roulement"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "kykloforoún energitikó",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "κυκλοφορούν ενεργητικό"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "capitale operativo"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "capitale circolante"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kapitał obrotowy"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kapitał pracujący"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "capital de giro"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "rörelsekapital"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "working capital"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "working capital"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "working capital (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with collocations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Accounting",
        "en:Business"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "working capital requirement",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Amount of capital a business or other entity has available for running its daily operations, calculated as current assets minus current liabilities."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "accounting",
          "accounting#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "current asset",
          "current asset"
        ],
        [
          "current liabilities",
          "current liability"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business, accounting) Amount of capital a business or other entity has available for running its daily operations, calculated as current assets minus current liabilities."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "WC"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "working capital"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pracovní kapitál"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "werkkapitaal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "käyttöpääoma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "fonds de roulement"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kykloforoún energitikó",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "κυκλοφορούν ενεργητικό"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capitale operativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capitale circolante"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kapitał obrotowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kapitał pracujący"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capital de giro"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "rörelsekapital"
    }
  ],
  "word": "working capital"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.