capital outlay

Example Sentences

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Only about a quarter of this goes toward capital outlay for weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Boston Dynamics will also lease the robots, hoping to bring in customers who might balk at an upfront capital outlay.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

Details including potential capital outlay is long awaited for a factory in Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon that Tesla announced in March.

From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2023

United were already committed to a significant capital outlay on Old Trafford.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2022

"Put that down," Mrs. Bishop had said; and the item of capital outlay had gone down on a half-sheet of note-paper.

From Sally Bishop A Romance by Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple)