ACTUAL COST collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of actual and cost
actual
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/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/us
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/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/
cost
noun
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/kɒst/us
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/kɑːst/
the amount of money needed to buy, do, or ...
Examples of actual cost
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The fourth most named barrier was to do with the actual cost of genetic engineering research.
The payment systems are inefficient because they are not related to actual cost performance or productivity.
For other medications, we calculated the actual cost of the drugs issued.
This approach would give an estimate of the actual cost of new technologies approved since 2000.
If it is based on actual cost, how is the actual cost for direct labour calculated?
Salaries and stipends must be pegged to the actual cost of living with automatic raises to compensate for inflation.
Furthermore, the actual cost of performing substitutions should be considered when reasoning about the complexity of implementations.
That was the actual cost.
This is the actual cost we pay.
The actual cost will be monitored.
Did that answer give the actual cost?
The actual cost of provision varies greatly.
The actual cost is not available.
There was no actual cost correlation.
The actual cost was £143 million.
The actual cost was about £1.5 million.
That figure is the actual cost.
The actual cost was £461 million.
Only experience can determine the actual cost.
Users always pay a fee, which is a fraction of the actual cost (eight per cent, on average), but a rising one.
The seller or the producer might be able to itemize expenses incurred, but the relation of those expenses to actual cost remained a mystery.
This description is rather basic as it says nothing about the actual cost of the substitution, which is quite high at run time.
Certainly, the subsidies paid to farmers in wealthy countries allow products to be sold on the world market below the actual cost of production.
The actual cost of delivering care will depend on the level to which blood pressure must be lowered to obtain the maximum benefit.
Since very few plans have 100 % of assets invested in employer stock, the actual cost of holding employer stock will be lower than these estimates.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.