capital cost amortization

capital Noun

— A capital is the most important city of a country. The government of the country is usually located there. — The (field) capital is the most important city in that particular field. Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital. — A person's capital is all his money and wealth. — A capital forms the topmost member of a column or pilaster. It broadens the area of the column's supporting surface.

capital Adjective

— A capital object or idea is something that is very important. — very good. That is a capital idea! — Involving punishment by death. Not all felonies are capital crimes. — . One begins a sentence with a capital letter.

cost Noun

— The cost of something is the price that a person pays for it. What is the cost of the car?

cost Verb

— When you say that a thing costs, you say that one must pay in order to buy it. That diamond ring costs a great deal of money. — One may say that an action costs a certain bad result. It cost me my job when I broke the machine. To commit a crime will cost you. — When you estimate a cost or set a cost, you cost a thing. The repair man costed the work to fix the car.

amortization

— noun payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers — noun the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years