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What is "capital assets"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
capital assets
noun
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▪ Danske Bank became the largest bank in the Nordic region, with Unibank slightly smaller in terms of overall capital assets.
▪ Housing represents most of the capital assets of local government.
▪ However, the firm can elect to have its capital assets collected in a pool.
▪ Individual circumstances differ but corporate ownership of major capital assets may provide worthwhile advantages.
▪ Inheritance therefore benefits those who already possess substantial capital assets.
▪ The capital allowances differ for different classes of capital assets.
▪ This is the case if the firm treats its capital assets separately.
▪ Thus, security investments generally are capital assets, but items of real and depreciable property used in the business are not.

Usage examples of "capital assets".

In order to insure the safety of the capital assets that the Aegis destroyers represented, the significant ASW capability had been integrated into the task force and was additionally augmented by twelve, P-3C Orion ASW aircraft operating from land bases in the area.

We give less than $20 billion in direct aid to Third World nations and we get back $30 billion a year in capital assets.

The officers of the 5th Descott had all realized that their men were their capital assets, too valuable to allow to go slack, and the ranks formed fairly quickly.

Except in war, where apprenticeship takes less time than elsewhere, ten years of preparatory education plus ten years of practical experience are required for the good government of men and the management of capital assets.

Partly it was a desire to conserve the Bearkillers' capital assets.

When they do not wish to provide sufficient capital assets-whether groundcars, flitters, or fusactors-those under pressure to complete the task at hand are put at greater risk.

Many of the classics of the cinema the capital assets of the enormous entertainment industry were becoming worthless, because fewer and fewer people could bear to watch them.