fixed asset

fixed asset

English

Noun

fixed asset (plural fixed assets)

1. (business, accounting) Asset or property which cannot easily be converted into cash, such as land, buildings and machinery.

   Synonym: non-current asset

   Coordinate term: current asset

Usage notes

The plural form is more usual.

Hyponyms

• property plant and equipment, PP&E

Translations

finance: an organization's fixed assets

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: հիմնական միջոց (hy) (himnakan miǰocʿ) Chinese: Mandarin: 固定資產／固定资产 (zh) (gùdìng zīchǎn) Czech: dlouhodobý majetek, stálá aktiva Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: onroerend goed (nl) n Finnish: käyttöomaisuus (fi) (fixed assets), käyttöomaisuuserä (fixed asset, countable) French: immobilisation (fr) f, actif immobilisé m German: Sachanlage f, Anlagevermögen n Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 固定資産 (ja) (こていしさん, kotei shisan) Korean: please add this translation if you can Maori: hua pūmau Polish: aktywa trwałe c pl, majątek trwały m Portuguese: ativo fixo m, activo fixo m Russian: основно́й акти́в m (osnovnój aktív) Spanish: activo fijo (es) m Swedish: anläggningstillgång (sv) c Vietnamese: tài sản cố định

See also

• fixed capital
• capital asset
• chargeable asset

Further reading

• “fixed asset” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “fixed assets” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “fixed assets” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “fixed assets”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary