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opex

noun/ˈɒpɛks/

B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The day-to-day running costs of a business, as opposed to capital spending.

Shifting from owned servers to the cloud turned a chunk of capex into recurring opex.

Topic: Finance in Business English

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