capital outlay
Americannoun
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Only about a quarter of this goes toward capital outlay for weapons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
Boston Dynamics will also lease the robots, hoping to bring in customers who might balk at an upfront capital outlay.
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
Details including potential capital outlay is long awaited for a factory in Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon that Tesla announced in March.
From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2023
United were already committed to a significant capital outlay on Old Trafford.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2022
On the other hand, the purely financial bureau usually begrudges the capital outlay which sound engineering may warrant.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert
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