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COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cost-benefit analysis mean?
• COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS (noun)
The noun COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS has 1 sense:
1. an analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs
Familiarity information: COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("cost-benefit analysis" is a kind of...):
analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)
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