capital cost

1. 1.

   the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk

   Synonymscost of capital

   Broaderopportunity cost

Questions about capital cost

What does capital cost mean?

capital cost means "the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk".

What is another word for capital cost?

Close synonyms include cost of capital. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capital cost a common word?

capital cost is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.