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capital intensive — adj. Requiring a large amount of equipment for production. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 … Law dictionary
capital-intensive — Used to describe industries that require large investments in capital assets to produce their goods, such as the automobile industry. These firms require large profit margins and/or low costs of borrowing to survive. Bloomberg Financial… … Financial and business terms
Capital Intensive — A business process or an industry that requires large amounts of money and other financial resources to produce a good or service. A business is considered capital intensive based on the ratio of the capital required to the amount of labor that… … Investment dictionary
capital-intensive — Denoting a technique of production that requires a high ratio of capital to labour costs. Compare labour intensive … Big dictionary of business and management
Capital Intensive — A project or production process that uses a relatively large amount of capital. ► See also Capital … Financial and business terms
Capital intensity — is the term in economics for the amount of fixed or real capital present in relation to other factors of production, especially labor. At the level of either a production process or the aggregate economy, it may be estimated by the capital/labor… … Wikipedia
Capital accumulation — Most generally, the accumulation of capital refers simply to the gathering or amassment of objects of value; the increase in wealth; or the creation of wealth. Capital can be generally defined as assets invested with the expectation that their… … Wikipedia
Production–possibility frontier — In economics, a production–possibility frontier (PPF), sometimes called a production–possibility curve or product transformation curve, is a graph that compares the production rates of two commodities that use the same fixed total of the factors… … Wikipedia
capital investment — See: capital expenditures. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * capital investment ˌcapital inˈvestment ➔ investment * * * Investment in capital equipment, such as buildings, plant or machinery. For example, the building of a chemical refinery … Financial and business terms
Intensive farming — or intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital, fertilizers, labour, or labour saving technologies such as pesticides relative to land area. [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article 9042533… … Wikipedia
