Dictionary

capital expenditure en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Funds that are spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset.
   • Meta has invested heavily in generative AI, with the majority of its planned $72bn in capital expenditure this year earmarked for data centres and servers. 2025 June 14, “Meta invests $15bn in scale AI as it builds ‘superintelligence’ team”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12:
   • As passenger numbers rise, the transport authority believes it can return to self-funding daily running costs during 2023, but it said government support for major capital expenditure is essential to prevent further decline. 2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Network News: TfL in "managed decline" - network will be degrading...”, in RAIL, number 953, page 12:

Forms

Coordinates

operating expenditure · OPEX

Synonyms

CAPEX · capital expense

Translations (11)

cmn 資本支出 /资本支出 (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · es capital desembolsado (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · fi pääomameno (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · fr dépenses d'investissement (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · ru капзатра́ты (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · th รายจ่ายประเภททุน (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · ru капита́льные затра́ты (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · ca despesa de capital (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · de Investitionsausgaben (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · pl nakłady inwestycyjne (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset) · ga caiteachas caipitiúil (funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset)