working capital

1. 1.

   assets available for use in the production of further assets

   Synonymscapital

   Broaderassets

   Narrowerstockventure capitaloperating capitalseed money

Questions about working capital

What does working capital mean?

working capital means "assets available for use in the production of further assets".

What is another word for working capital?

Close synonyms include 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 working capital a common word?

working capital 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.