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Definition of Capital cost
1. Noun. 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.
Medical Definition of Capital cost
1. The total investment needed to complete a project and bring it to a commercially operable status. The cost of construction of a new plant. The expenditures for the purchase or acquisition of existing facilities. (05 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capital Cost
Literary usage of Capital cost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Work of the Interstate Commerce Commission by Harry Turner Newcomb (1905)
"capital cost. (The Railway Age, Editorial, January 29, 1904.) In current discussion
of the relation of railway rates to the cost of producing transportation ..."
2. Forest Owners' Guide to the Federal Income Tax by William C. Siegel, William L. Hoover, Harry L. Haney, Jr., Karen Liu (1996)
"... property or equipment, or to make improvements that increase the value of real
property or equipment already owned, is classified as a capital cost. ..."
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