physical capital

[ fiz-i-kuhl kap-i-tl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

tools, machinery, computers, and other equipment that are needed for the production of goods and services:
money spent by business firms on physical capital.

First recorded in 1835–45, for an earlier sense

He was thirty years old, with his full account of mental and physical capital.

Every hour that a child sleeps is just so much investment of physical capital for years to come.

To render Paris the physical capital of Europe is, through his own confession, "one of his constant dreams."

She could not sleep and was so fatigued that she believed herself at the end of her physical capital.

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