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Definition: Capital Cost |
Capital CostNoun1. The opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | The purchase of fixed assets, e. g. plant and machinery, for the purpose of increasing future production ; the sum of money spent on fixed assets. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Capital CostSynonym: cost of capital (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Capital Cost |
| Specialty definitions using "capital cost": adjusted basis, Alternative Measures of income, amortization period ♦ current annual forest per cent, current annual forest percent ♦ economic value added, efficient airway size ♦ indicating per cent, indicating percent ♦ manufacturing engineering ♦ net realizable value, No Net Cost Tobacco Act of 1982, non recurring capital cost ♦ production engineering manager, Production expenses ♦ Reconstructed Source, reimbursement period, repayment period ♦ speculative gain, Stranded Investment. (references) |
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Business | The total five-year capital cost is estimated at R47 billion, of which around R30 billion has already been spent. (references) | |
Each has advantages and disadvantages in terms of capital cost, ease of use, space requirements and degree of pollutant removal. (references) | ||
The applicability of BEMS to new buildings is even greater, since the installation of a BEMS is competitive in capital cost terms with traditional stand-alone controls except in buildings with very simple mechanical and electrical systems. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hong Kong | The Ma On Shan Rail (MOS Rail) and the Tsimshatsui Extension (TST Extension) have a combined capital cost of US$2.1 billion. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "capital cost": non recurring capital cost. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Language | Translations for "capital cost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpenzime investimi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kapitaludgifter (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kapitaaluitgaven (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | frais d'installation (capital expenditures), dépenses en immobilisations (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay), dépenses en capital (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vermoegenswirksame Ausgaben (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay), Kapitalausgaben (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay), Kapitalaufwand (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κεφαλαιουχικές δαπάνες (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay), δαπάνες κεφαλαίου (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spese in conto capitale (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apitalcay ostcay despesas de capital (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay). (various references) основная стоимость. (various references) gastos de capital (capital charges, capital expenditure, capital investment, capital outlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Capital Cost" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: captial cost. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-o-p-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: coattails, tailcoats. | |
-3 letters: aplastic, capitals, capitols, cattails, cattalos, coalpits, coattail, spiccato, staccati, staccato, statical, stoccata, tactical, tailcoat, talipots, tapiocas, toccatas. | |
-4 letters: alcaics, altoist, apicals, apostil, asocial, astatic, atactic, calicos, calpacs, capital, capitol, catalos, cattail, cattalo, cicalas, citolas, clastic, cloacas, coalpit, coastal, optical, plastic, psoatic, solatia, spacial, spatial, spotlit, stoical, tactics, talipot, tapalos, tapioca. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-o-p-s-t-t" | |
+4 letters: pantisocratical, postapocalyptic. | |
+5 letters: catastrophically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 69 74 61 6C 43 6F 73 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p i t a l   C o s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0069 0074 0061 006C 0043 006F 0073 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678275866778237818586 |
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