wasting asset
noun[C]
ACCOUNTING,FINANCEukusanasset, such as aninvestmentor apieceofequipment, that willcontinuetolosevalueovertime:
Propertyleaseswith less than 50yearstorunareseenaswastingassets.
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In some cases a trust can become awastingasset.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As a result, it was deemed to be awastingassetand the sale of the painting was exempt from capital gains tax.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is classified as awastingassetdue to the finite term of the license.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A memory from some book on political economy flashed through her mind: beauty was awastingasset.
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The first is that a lease is awastingasset.
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Let us consider the mining industry as awastingasset.
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This financial strength comes from awastingassetthat may very well be gone by the 1990s or the end of the century.
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If one overworks these soldiers, good as they are, they are inclined to become stale and in time will become awastingasset.
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For the occupier, the mobile home is awastingasset.
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To pursue this policy one must face the fact that bases on foreign soil are to some extent awastingasset.
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