CAPITAL LOSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capital loss mean? 

• CAPITAL LOSS (noun)
  The noun CAPITAL LOSS has 1 sense:

1. the amount by which the purchase price of an asset exceeds the selling price; the loss is realized when the asset is sold

  Familiarity information: CAPITAL LOSS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITAL LOSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount by which the purchase price of an asset exceeds the selling price; the loss is realized when the asset is sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("capital loss" is a kind of...):

financial loss (loss of money or decrease in financial value)