capital sum
noun [C]Definition
› FINANCE an amount of money paid at one time, for example, by an insurance company, on an investment, or as a gift: Special tax rules apply to capital sums received from the sale of patent rights.
(Definition of capital sum noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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