tie up capital

Of course, it still costs you (the opportunity cost of your tied up capital).

As a result, booksellers do not have to tie up capital by stocking too many copies of the same book.

No less important, a rapid transition would tie up capital that could otherwise be used to increase productive capacity.

Large-scale wineries can afford to tie up capital with long-cellared wines.

This tied up capital in inventory and in the equipment to handle and store it.

Anyone dumb enough to keep oil on hand as inventory is tying up capital in an asset that is all but certain to lose value.

And that ties up capital and raises costs.

By tying up capital that could otherwise be lent anew, they throttle bank earnings and starve the economy of credit.

Why should we undertake a risky new venture which will require tying up capital in new manufacturing plant?"

Retail banking ties up capital and property and staff in large numbers and in the wrong places.

These investments, another relic of its role as the financier of German industry, have become costly, tying up capital in dreary companies.

"It's risk-free for them if we manufacture it, because they don't have to tie up capital," Mr. Wyman said.

The spectacle of lawyers and judges tying up capital cases in never-ending procedural review, while crime rates skyrocketed, helped discredit opposition to the death penalty.

Such transactions permit companies like HealthSouth to rid their operations of low-return real estate assets, and free them from tying up capital.

Not wanting to tie up capital in land ownership, Hilton introduced the idea of a 99-year land lease with the Dallas Hilton.

One reason the 1994 Lenz Cuvée is expensive is that it has tied up capital for a dozen years while aging in the cellar.

Occupiers bid up house prices, because they didn't expect to have it to tie up capital for the life of the property (or thirty years) as they once had.

Not only are more companies uncertain about their futures - and more reluctant to tie up capital - but office rents are leveling off, and in some cases, declining.

This technique is useful because it affords the buyer the ability to obtain financing without the need for transaction costs and does not tie up capital to obtain a new loan.

Wines aged for a decade or longer tie up capital all that time; that goes toward explaining why Lenz's 1991, 1993 and 1994 Recently Disgorged bottles cost $50.

In short, while it is good for third party service providers, it is administratively inefficient for investors, brokers and companies and ties up capital needlessly in the securities system.

After years of deregulation and slow growth, the government's former monopolies are no longer generating enough profit for the government to justify tying up capital in them that could be used to reduce debt instead.

Marx argued that the former might lead, through unemployment, to working class unrest and the latter would, in tying up capital and removing it from the circulation of capital, reduce the rate of profits made in production.

That return rate may seem low, but it is still positive after all of our discounting, suggesting that the investment decision is probably a good one: it produces enough profit to compensate for tying up capital and incurring risk with a little extra left over.

A place with 30 tables simply can't afford to tie up capital by buying and holding large stocks of wine: it costs too much, there may not be any place to store it and there probably won't be enough guests to drink it.