Costs
Meanings and phrases
costs
- pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation
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- a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.); fixed charge; fixed cost
- Nevertheless, replacing fixed costs with variable costs is attractive to budget-holders.
- One analogy is "fixed costs + variable costs = total costs ..similar to.. debt + equity = assets".
- It relates to operating leverage, which measures the ratio between fixed costs and variable costs.
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- Acquisition and operating costs are similar to laser printers.
- The operating costs were estimated at NOK 17,850 for the first year.
- Banks have adopted new technologies in order to reduce operating costs.
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- design widgets) versus incremental production costs (e.g.
- The invention of milking machines lowered production costs.
- The reformed coins were introduced to save on production costs.
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- Also, early and generous retirement schemes have contributed to high pension costs.
- For the pension costs exception, 169 school districts received approval to exceed the Index.
- Approval was granted to 133 of them and 128 sought an exception for pension costs increases.
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- Rock is determined to stop him at all costs.
- In prison, if needs be, but I must at all costs live!...
- He is under orders to protect this document at all costs.
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- Total construction costs for MOCC were $61.8 million.
- The construction costs ultimately totaled $1.5 million.
- Bishop Medley himself paid most of the construction costs.
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- The absence of hydraulics greatly reduces maintenance costs.
- Safety problems were reported despite high maintenance costs.
- It was closed in 2014 on the grounds of high maintenance costs.
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- For special education costs, 129 districts received approval to exceed the tax limit.
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- Agriculture seeks to increase yield and to reduce costs.
- Snowsheds, easy routings and sidings were omitted to reduce costs.
- Portable programs would save time, reduce costs and ease modernization.
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- Tourism is limited by the short summers and high costs.
- However, VANs may come with high costs.
- As a result of its high costs, the project was however shelved.
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- In total, direct costs associated with the event were estimated at C$10 million.
- In 2009, hospital costs associated with amputation totaled more than $8.3 billion.
- Fault reporting eliminates maintenance costs associated manual diagnostic testing.
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- For special education costs, 129 districts received approval to exceed the tax limit.
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- Compaq had been producing the PC chassis at its plant in Shenzhen, China to cut costs.
- Bazley's recommendations were rapidly adopted by the Government which wanted to cut costs.
- Using temperature to effect change allows labs to cut costs on buying salt and saves money.
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- In 2008, Lebanon School District's administrative costs were $743.62 per pupil.
- Cocalico School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $682.73 per pupil.
- Derry Area School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $712.55 per pupil.
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- The fine was reduced to £1,400 and legal costs to £5,000.
- The defendants are fundraising towards their legal costs.
- The suit asked for $165,000 in back payments plus legal costs.
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- Shorter cycle times means higher productivity and lower costs per part.
- Carnegie's determination to lower costs included cutting labor expenses as well.
- This alternative education comes at lower costs than traditional public schooling.
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- Combined development costs were estimated at $3.5 to $4 billion.
- Both approaches feature high infrastructure costs and/or development costs.
- Terminal Reality reported total development costs between $15 and 20 million.
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- It also addresses the rising costs of transportation.
- Dible cited flat revenues and rising costs as the reason for the layoffs.
- He cited rising costs and indicated his plans to find something new to do.
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- To keep running costs low he wrote much of the magazine himself.
- These light aircraft also allow for longer flying time and lower running costs.
- The cost of geological sequestration is minor relative to the overall running costs.
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- The quarantine was not free, and Frank was required to pay £12 to cover the costs.
- Bosselt began work on the house, but was not able to cover the costs of construction.
- They would have to know if revenues would be adequate to cover the costs of running a city.
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- The Democrats were ordered to cover the extra costs incurred to the state.
- There is little or no research on the extra costs incurred or the extra revenue.
- The media reported that the restructuring was due to rising costs incurred by rapid growth.
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- All economic transaction imply so-called transaction costs.
- Agribusiness boundary expansion is driven by a variety of transaction costs.
- Finally, corruption can increase the transaction costs faced by those in the marketing chain.
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- Solar water heating further reduces energy costs.
- Higher energy costs affect these costs, especially transportation.
- The school's new HVAC system is expected to save 30 percent in energy costs.
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- The court costs amount to 2 million €.
- Capp was fined $500 and court costs.
- He was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay $450 in court costs.
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- they are part of the labor costs.
- Non-availability of laborers and escalating labor costs are aggravating the situation.
- Fault discovery requires diagnostic maintenance, which requires system down time and labor costs.
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- They are told that transportation costs will be taken out of their salaries.
- Limitations to the division of labour have also been related to coordination and transportation costs.
- The remaining materials were pulped to avoid storage and transportation costs, and to make a small profit.
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- In recent years, interest in health cooperatives has increased with rising of health care costs.
- The strike, while achieving a 5% pay raise, did not provide guarantees to control rising health care costs.
- Ryan justified his vote claiming that the Commission's recommendations did not do enough to reduce health care costs.
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- Housing, transportation and health insurance costs are not included in the tuition price.
- The 1980s saw the fraternity deal with issues such as hazing, rising insurance costs, and maintenance of individual chapter operations.
- Both problems may raise insurance costs and reduce efficiency by driving otherwise willing transactors from the market ("incomplete markets").
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- Shorter cycle times means higher productivity and lower costs per part.
- Cocalico School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $682.73 per pupil.
- Derry Area School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $712.55 per pupil.
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- Of the districts who sought exceptions: 221 used the pension costs exemption and 171 sought a Special Education costs exemption.
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- The operational costs is estimated to be around 70 thousand Euro per year.
- Her operational costs were also notably higher than those of her main competitors.
- This also has effects on operational costs and timetables, as the refuelling frequency is reduced.
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- The school receives no funding for capital costs.
- Anticipated capital costs to develop the project were estimated at 987.5 million with an estimated mine life of 24 years.
- During the economic times around the millennium, lower initial capital costs seemed to trump longevity as a selling factor.
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- Lempertz reimbursed Trasteco its €800.000 sales commission as well as some additional costs.
- Either yield will be reduced or additional costs will be incurred from additional nitrogen fertilizer.
- To add insult to injury, the War Office refused to reimburse the additional costs incurred by its procrastination.
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- Labor and fuel costs are a significant part of the overhead.
- It is used for only small boilers where capital cost outweighs fuel costs.
- Many other airlines are replicating Southwest's hedging policy to control their fuel costs.
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- He has also written about the costs and benefits of fair value accounting.
- Secondly, costs and benefits must reflect the signallers’ phenotypic quality.
- The evolutionary equilibrium depends sensitively on the balance of costs and benefits.
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- In recent years, interest in health cooperatives has increased with rising of health care costs.
- The strike, while achieving a 5% pay raise, did not provide guarantees to control rising health care costs.
- Ryan justified his vote claiming that the Commission's recommendations did not do enough to reduce health care costs.
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- The scheduling for the INL was designed to keep the travel costs at a minimum.
- Pruitt defended his unprecedented travel costs as necessary for security reasons.
- Sablan claimed that the amount was used to refund staffers for various travel costs.
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- Indigenous governments are reluctant to take on the ongoing costs involved.
- This particular pattern is predicted because the costs involved in mating for each sex are distinct.
- It was estimated that the extra costs involved in taking this route amounted to one-third of the total costs.
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- However, FACE experiments carry significantly higher costs relative to greenhouse experiments.
- More fundamental drivers of increased prices are the higher costs of fertiliser, diesel and labour.
- Spanish-speaking patient with an English-speaking physician) may also lead to greater medical expenditures and thus higher costs to the organization.
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- This incurs additional board costs due to the need for the additional bridge chip and for a separate AGP-designed circuit board.
- The government is encouraging production of plywood and veneer due to the high exporting costs due to poor transportation infrastructure.
- CUT&RUN-sequencing has the advantage of being a simpler technique with lower costs due to the high signal-to-noise ratio, requiring less depth in sequencing.
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- Both parties agreed to this, in an effort to keep costs down.
- They often use cheap plastic strips of keys to keep costs down.
- 500,000, Wadia planned to use friends from the gay community to help keep costs down.
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- Its total costs were $150,000 in 1991.
- In 2008, total costs related to energy imports reached $8 billion.
- To arrive at net profit, the leverage cost is subtracted from the gross total costs.
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- This uncertainty has created additional opportunities for corruption and increased costs for investors.
- Prices would have to be higher to compensate farmers for the increased costs they incur to produce Fairtrade.
- The expansion in the fall was considered a risk due to the increased costs of events run at that time of the year.
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- The state offers a small grant to assist students in costs for tuition, fees and books.
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- The state offers a small grant to assist students in costs for tuition, fees and books.
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- Several exceptions were maintained: 1) costs to pay interest and principal on indebtedness incurred prior to September 4, 2004 for Act 72 schools and prior to June 27, 2006 for non-Act 72 schools; 2) costs to pay interest and principal on electoral debt; 3) costs incurred in providing special education programs and services (beyond what is already paid by the State); and 4) costs due to increases of more than the Index in the school's share of payments to PSERS (PA school employees pension fund) taking into account the state mandated PSERS contribution rate.
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- The contractor was responsible for all other costs including fuel.
- In the end the overall costs from coordination might overwhelm other costs.
- Some meets other costs.
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- The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny.
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- Including this display increased manufacturing costs.
- Costimator was released in late 1982, designed to model manufacturing costs.
- This was probably to reduce manufacturing costs, as there is no other obvious benefit of doing this.
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- That budget presented a picture of declining revenues and increasing costs.
- The peasants had to pay the increasing costs for defence against the Ottomans.
- This break-up of the company was attributed to the increasing costs of each process node.
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- Both parties agreed to this, in an effort to keep costs down.
- They often use cheap plastic strips of keys to keep costs down.
- CCA is a non-profit school, and therefore tries to keep costs low.
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- Housing, transportation and health insurance costs are not included in the tuition price.
- Act 1 included 10 exceptions, including: increasing pension costs, increases in special education costs, a catastrophe like a fire or flood, increase in health insurance costs for contracts in effect in 2006 or dwindling tax bases.
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- If the applicant does not qualify, the state must pay the medical costs for the first three months.
- Before leaving, Alex gives Patrick her phone number so he can contact her for any medical costs incurred.
- In this day and age current antimicrobial resistance leads to longer hospital stays, higher medical costs, and increased mortality.
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- For the pension costs exception, 169 school districts received approval to exceed the Index.
- For the pension costs exception, 163 school districts received approval to exceed the Index in full, while others received a partial approval of their request.
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- For the pension costs exception, 169 school districts received approval to exceed the Index.
- For the pension costs exception, 163 school districts received approval to exceed the Index in full, while others received a partial approval of their request.
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- The main changes were aimed at reducing costs.
- Not all the modernisations would be effective at reducing costs.
- The upcoming SLM804 laser printer would not come with a processor or memory, reducing costs.
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- Act 1 included 10 exceptions, including: increasing pension costs, increases in special education costs, a catastrophe like a fire or flood, increase in health insurance costs for contracts in effect in 2006 or dwindling tax bases.
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- Act 1 included 10 exceptions, including: increasing pension costs, increases in special education costs, a catastrophe like a fire or flood, increase in health insurance costs for contracts in effect in 2006 or dwindling tax bases.
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- This includes helicopter, ground, and most fixed-wing transport costs.
- Due to high transport costs, the markets in the West were unavailable too.
- It was faster than carts pulled by draft animals and cut transport costs by about 95%.
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- Cocalico School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $682.73 per pupil.
- Derry Area School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $712.55 per pupil.
- Franklin Area School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $857.56 per pupil.
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- Macdonald ceded to Onderdonk, due to the savings in labour costs.
- The main cause of this expense was high labour costs, though the rarity of building-quality limestone also contributed.
- In secret, it had applied to the Canada Labour Board for permission to cut labour costs by 30% by closing its Royal division immediately.
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- Approval was granted to 133 of them and 128 sought an exception for pension costs increases.
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- The body, in order to save costs, has flat windows.
- To save costs, Adebayo uses his own house as the studio.
- This could save costs for public administrations and improve the quality of various public services.
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- The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny.
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- Approval was granted to 133 of them and 128 sought an exception for pension costs increases.
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- Cocalico School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $682.73 per pupil.
- Derry Area School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $712.55 per pupil.
- Franklin Area School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $857.56 per pupil.
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- The building costs were over 300 million DKK (US$46.9 million (29 June 2018)).
- The more players have constructed, the more each building costs, which therefore requires players' meticulous arrangement with strategy.
- This would allow for ease of connection to already existing municipal water, sewage, and electricity lines, decreasing both time and building costs.
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- This model estimated that public healthcare costs would reduce by 5% over a 10-year period.
- Onsite care allows employers to control healthcare costs themselves, and the business is growing.
- An Italian study assessed the impact of cycling for commute on major non-communicable diseases and public healthcare costs.
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- Facing rising housing costs, residents voted to enact rent control and vacancy control in 1980.
- He voted against the Lyttonsville Sector Plan because he stated that it would increase housing costs and force residents to move out, as well as the Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan.
- David Hyde (22) began his internship at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, without pay, but was forced to live in a tent because of expensive housing costs, according to reports published on August 13, 2015.
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- Epilepsy resulted in economic costs in Europe of around 15.5 billion Euros in 2004.
- All economic costs in the United States in 2006 have been estimated at $223.5 billion.
- Seizures result in direct economic costs of about one billion dollars in the United States.