capital expenditure

1. 1.

   the cost of long-term improvements

   Broadercost

Questions about capital expenditure

What does capital expenditure mean?

capital expenditure means "the cost of long-term improvements".

Is capital expenditure a common word?

capital expenditure 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.