capital expense
Example Sentences
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It gave firms computing capacity without the old capital expense.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
By comparison, machines look like a one-time capital expense — set it and forget it, is the goal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024
That’s roughly $8.75 per ride so far — high by the standards of public mass transit, but still less than half what Seattle’s South Lake Union streetcar is costing, without any of the capital expense.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2024
In a deregulated power market, developers have struggled with the enormous capital expense of building a power reactor.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2023
Where capital expense became a significant factor, larger commercial farms—known as “bonanza farms”—began to develop.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
