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

But after the initial capital outlay for the buses and charging stations, the electric buses are much less expensive to operate.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2023

At first sight this failure to meet operating expenses, much less to pay interest on the investment, together with constantly increasing capital outlay, seemed to warrant strong condemnation of government methods.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas