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CARRYING COST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does carrying cost mean?
• CARRYING COST (noun)
The noun CARRYING COST has 1 sense:
1. the opportunity cost of unproductive assets; the expense incurred by ownership
Familiarity information: CARRYING COST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The opportunity cost of unproductive assets; the expense incurred by ownership
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
carrying charge; carrying cost
Hypernyms ("carrying cost" is a kind of...):
opportunity cost (cost in terms of foregoing alternatives)
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