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Definition: Cost Of Capital |
Cost Of CapitalNoun1. 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. |
Synonym: Cost Of CapitalSynonym: capital cost (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cost Of Capital |
| Specialty definitions using "cost of capital": net realizable value. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | High cost of raw materials and new equipment, lack of financial assistance and high cost of capital have forced these small companies to work with obsolete equipment or to close their operations. (references) | |
Economic History | Nigeria | In this environment, the cost of capital for the private sector is unquestionably high. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Again, foreign exchange availability and the cost of capital are significant obstacles to a successful business relationship. (references) | |
Guyana | While foreign investors have some access to local capital markets (in local currency only), the cost of capital in Guyana is not attractive. (references) | |
Trade | South Africa | Foreign exchange may be provided for advance payments not exceeding 33 1/3 percent of the ex-factory cost of capital goods to be imported provided that 1) the South African banker is satisfied from the production of documentary evidence supplied by the overseas manufacturer that the order would otherwise be refused, 2) that such payment is normal in the trade concerned, and 3) the importer has applied to the South African Reserve Bank and the application is justified. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
weighted average cost of capital | 100 |
cost of capital | 99 |
cost of capital punishment | 24 |
opportunity cost of capital | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-f-i-l-o-o-p-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: postcoital. | |
-4 letters: apostolic, coattails, tailcoats. | |
-5 letters: aplastic, capitals, capitols, cattails, cattalos, coalpits, coattail, copilots, fatalist, flatcaps, flattops, foolscap, piccolos, scotopia, scotopic, spiccato, staccati, staccato, statical, stoccata, tactical, tailcoat, talipots, tapiocas, toccatas, topcoats. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 73 74 4F 66 43 61 70 69 74 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o s t   O f   C a p i t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0073 0074 004F 0066 0043 0061 0070 0069 0074 0061 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3781858624972237678275866778 |
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