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CAPITAL COST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does capital cost mean?
• CAPITAL COST (noun)
The noun CAPITAL COST has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CAPITAL COST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
capital cost; cost of capital
Hypernyms ("capital cost" is a kind of...):
opportunity cost (cost in terms of foregoing alternatives)
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