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cost | American Dictionary
cost noun (MONEY)
cost noun (SOMETHING GIVEN OR LOST)
Idioms
cost verb [T] (PAY MONEY)
The trip will cost (you) $1000.
cost verb [T] (GIVE OR LOSE SOMETHING)
(Definition of cost from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
cost | Business English
cost $1 million/£500,000, etc. Calls cost 60 cents per minute.
cost more/less than Stamp duty is up to 3% on properties costing more than £250,000.
cost about/around/up to luxury apartments costing up to £900,000 each
cost as little/much as Hundreds of items, some costing as little as $1, are for sale.
cost (sb) a fortune/a bomb/the earth informal
(Definition of cost from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of cost
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Cost utility analysis permits the cost of treatment to be considered according to the amount of benefit afforded to the patients.
This permits good discrimination within this intensity range at the cost of absolute intensity discrimination.
The working plans included construction of forest access roads at fairly high labour cost.
Using this early conceptual framework, numerous layouts were planned and costed.
Our task-based approach is presented in view of a rigorous mathematically-based optimization formulation, where cost functions characterizing human performance measures are implemented.
A cost of production analysis of conventional versus integrated versus organic apple productions systems.
First, pricing and other policies that artificially 'subsidize' the returns to conversion activities on forest land or the costs of conversion need to be reformed.
Additional copies, not exceeding 200, may be had at cost price : these should be ordered when the final proof is returned.
In a nonlinear environment, it would be enough to have locally increasing returns like setup costs.
The reduction in collateral relative to debt raises the costs of lending and reduces the return on investment and the aggregate rate of growth.
This reduces the costs of financial intermediation and raises the overall return on investment.
Using the connection between language and reasoning to improve concept generation may assist in reducing the overall cost in the product realization cycle.
Of interest, national regulations were required already at that time to reduce the large variability among hospitals in the exact method of cost price calculation.
The constant represents the expected project yield in capital (per unit invested), net of monitoring costs.
The cost of replacing carbon by growing trees is so high primarily because of the opportunity costs of foregoing agricultural production on prime cropland.
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Collocations with cost
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The fourth most named barrier was to do with the actual cost of genetic engineering research.
However, we will see that this added cost allows more efficient program generators to be generated using existing technology.
Fortunately, this can be handled without any additional cost.
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