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capital expense

noun as in capital expenditure

noun as in capital investment

noun as in capital spending

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By comparison, machines look like a one-time capital expense — set it and forget it, is the goal.

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.

That figure is just the capital expense — it doesn’t include the cost of running the trains.

In a deregulated power market, developers have struggled with the enormous capital expense of building a power reactor.

At a minimum, capital expense to build out and equip a modest esports facility on campus is about $50,000.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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