WORKING CAPITAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does working capital mean? 

• WORKING CAPITAL (noun)
  The noun WORKING CAPITAL has 1 sense:

1. assets available for use in the production of further assets

  Familiarity information: WORKING CAPITAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKING CAPITAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assets available for use in the production of further assets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

capital; working capital

Hypernyms ("working capital" is a kind of...):

assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)

Meronyms (members of "working capital"):

current assets; liquid assets; quick assets (assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "working capital"):

stock (the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity))

risk capital; venture capital (wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises)

operating capital (capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements)

seed money (capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise)