Meanings
plural capital expenditures
- countableuncountableFunds 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 121 more example
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 12Synonyms: capital expense, CAPEX
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFunds that are spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset.
Translations
Catalan despesa de capital
- despesa de capitalfunds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
Chinese Mandarin 資本支出 /资本支出
- 資本支出 /资本支出funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
Finnish pääomameno
- pääomamenofunds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
French dépenses d'investissement
- dépenses d'investissementfunds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
German Investitionsausgaben
- Investitionsausgabenfunds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
Irish caiteachas caipitiúil
- caiteachas caipitiúilfunds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
Polish nakłady inwestycyjne
- nakłady inwestycyjnefunds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
Russian капита́льные затра́ты, капзатра́ты
- капита́льные затра́ты (kapitálʹnyje zatráty)funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
- капзатра́ты (kapzatráty)funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
Spanish capital desembolsado
- capital desembolsadofunds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
Thai รายจ่ายประเภททุน
- รายจ่ายประเภททุนfunds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset
Cite this entry
capital expenditure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capital%20expenditure
“capital expenditure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capital%20expenditure. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “capital expenditure,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capital%20expenditure.
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