working capital
Use Working capital in a sentenceworking capital
noun
1.
the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
2.
Accounting. current assets minus current liabilities.
3.
liquid capital assets as distinguished from fixed capital assets.
Origin:
1900–05
1900–05
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| working capital | |
| —n | |
| 1. | accounting current assets minus current liabilities |
| 2. | current or liquid assets |
| 3. | that part of the capital of a business enterprise available for operations |
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Example sentences
Many businesses retain some of the earnings in order to have working capital for the business.
Working capital shouldn't be destroyed for money because there are often people willing to buy it.
Markets for short-term money, the arteries for working capital, are clogged.
They have been smothered in bad debts, which prevent companies from getting working capital to keep producing.
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