capital gain

1. 1.

   the amount by which the selling price of an asset exceeds the purchase price; the gain is realized when the asset is sold

   Broaderfinancial gain

Questions about capital gain

What does capital gain mean?

capital gain means "the amount by which the selling price of an asset exceeds the purchase price; the gain is realized when the asset is sold".

Is capital gain a common word?

capital gain 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.