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Definition of Cost

Cost
Cost Cost (k?st; 115), n. [L. costa rib. See Coast.] 1. A rib; a side; a region or coast. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. Betwixt the costs of a ship. --B. Jonson. 2. (Her.) See Cottise.

Meaning of Cost from wikipedia

- cost Incremental cost Indirect cost Life-cycle cost Outline of industrial organization Repugnancy costs Semi-variable cost Total cost Variable cost Gross...
- longer available. Cost may also refer to: Economic cost, an overview of cost in the field of economics Opportunity cost, the cost of something measured...
- In economics and business decision-making, a sunk cost (also known as retrospective cost) is a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered...
- categories: direct materials cost, direct labor cost and manufacturing overhead. It is a factor in total delivery cost. Direct materials are the raw...
- In microeconomic theory, the opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone where, given limited resources, a choice needs to...
- by minimizing cost consistent with each possible level of production, and the result is a cost curve. Profit-maximizing firms use cost curves to decide...
- The cost of living is the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living for an individual or a household. Changes in the cost of living over time can...
- economics, the marginal cost is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced is increased, i.e. the cost of producing additional...
- other words, it is the total cost needed to bring a project to a commercially operable status. Whether a particular cost is capital or not depend on many...
- strategy, cost leadership is a strategy aiming to establish a competitive advantage by having the lowest cost of operation in the industry. Cost leadership...