CAPITAL GAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capital gain mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITAL GAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

financial gain (the amount of monetary gain)