How to Use working capital in a Sentence

working capital

noun
  • And here was this cheap stock, cheap by working capital standards or so.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 25 Dec. 2025
  • To go fix that stuff, so what takes up a lot of the cash is the working capital cycle.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 26 Sep. 2018
  • The short-term working capital will be used to make the investments.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2022
  • This might be days of cash on hand or working capital as a percentage of monthly burn.
    — Ali Aydan, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The good news is that anyone can get a handle on their business’s working capital.
    — Adam Coffey, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • One of the biggest challenges is the working capital required.
    — Catherine Kuo, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Those funds would be used to buy equipment and furnishings, and provide working capital.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2018
  • This is taking money away from small businesses to use as working capital and sell more product.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This is all before the supply chain, sales and marketing, and working capital.
    — Jennifer Jacobs Dungs, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • That is working capital which small-time exporters cannot easily replace.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Tariffs must be paid before goods are released, tying up working capital when it’s needed most.
    — Richard Howells, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Airlines tend to use advance bookings as working capital -- in other words, to buy fuel.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
  • On the other hand, a decrease in working capital results in cash being released.
    — Vipul Bansal, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The first is their balance sheets—working capital, reserves, endowment and debt.
    — Adrian Ellis, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Even so, many suppliers were forced to dig deep into their limited reserves of working capital to stay afloat.
    — Christian Lanng, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Manufacturers supplied knitters with working capital in the form of yarn and paid them by the pair.
    — Virginia Postrel, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • An increase in a company's working capital means that cash is being utilized.
    — Vipul Bansal, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • This amount would take care of our working capital and capital expenditure needs.
    — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 5 Feb. 2020
  • This is why working capital management is crucial.
    — Block Advisors Contributor, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The loans are similar to a loan for working capital that a business owner might seek out from a bank, but with lower rates and easier terms.
    — John S. Marshall, Houston Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Payment delays disrupt supply chains and force companies to tie up more working capital.
    — Hammed Afenifere, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Companies for years have worked on postponing the due dates on their bills to free up cash for running their businesses, or working capital.
    — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • The funds were meant to be used as working capital or for normal operating expenses, such as rent and utilities.
    — al, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Those are the largest pieces of working capital, and those are the pieces that many people in the organization can directly affect.
    — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Inventory planners placed product in the right place to balance supply and demand and were measured on working capital costs.
    — Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Big contracts can stall in procurement for 90-plus days—locking up working capital as hiring or expansion looms.
    — Ashish Srimal, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Fixing these challenges improves working capital and decision speed.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • For now, Netflix has plugged the increase in working capital by turning to the debt market, a move that has concerned some investors, analysts say.
    — Tatyana Shumsky, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
  • After the lockdown ends, banks should be allowed to convert working capital credit of industries into loans of three to five years, to be paid in equal instalments.
    — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The next steps for Norwegian are to raise the necessary working capital and equity through share offerings.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 4 May 2021

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