DIRECT COSTS

  

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DIRECT COSTS

Specialty Definition: DIRECT COSTS

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Building & Civil Engineering

Cost of a flood protection programme, including design and construction of engineering structures, loss of productive land coming under reservoirs, relocation of transportation and other facilities occasioned by construction of the project, amortization tax costs, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Business

Expenditure which can be directly allocated to the production costs of goods or services. Source: European Union. (references)

Economics

Costs varying in direct proportion to production and attributable to a specific factor of production. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DIRECT COSTS

Specialty definitions using "DIRECT COSTS": alternative justifiable cost method, alternative justifiable expenditure methodHospital Costs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: DIRECT COSTS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Accounting for Nonrefundable Fees and Costs Associated With Originating or Acquiring Loans and Initial Direct Costs of Leases (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DIRECT COSTS

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Health

In addition, the direct costs of medical care for children and youth with ADHD are substantial. (references)

A highly conservative estimate of the direct costs of caring for persons with incontinence of all ages in the community is $7 billion annually in the United States. (references)

Although public costs for LTC are growing, a substantial proportion of the direct costs for this care still are paid "out of pocket," and by far the largest share of the indirect costs of ADRD are borne by families. (references)

Business

The following example illustrates the direct costs of importing a semi-finished good for re-sale to Argentina. (references)

Subprogram for Port Improvements ($150 million in direct costs) - Intended to improve the efficiency of port operations. (references)

Economic History

Japan

The direct costs of finding an appropriate Japanese licensee are small compared to other forms of market entry. (references)

Croatia

However, as the Government has tended to bail-out bad banks, insufficiencies of the banking sector were felt by the budget through direct costs of bank rehabilitation of HRK 6.3 billion. (references)

Hungary

One hundred percent of the direct costs incurred in connection with research and development activities (wages, materials, semi-finished products, license fees, patents, know-how, consulting fees, etc.) are deductible from the tax base. (references)

Trade

Haiti

The products may incorporate imported components as long as the goods exported to the U.S. are a new merchandise product distinct from such components, and the Haitian direct costs of production (including domestic raw materials and those originating in other CBI beneficiary countries, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) must amount to at least 35% of the customs value. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DIRECT COSTS

Language Translations for "DIRECT COSTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

direkte omkostninger (direct product costs, prime costs), byggeomkostninger. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

direkte kosten, directe kosten (direct product costs, prime costs). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

välittömät kustannukset, välitön kustannus (direct product costs, prime costs). (various references)

   

French

  

dépenses de premier établissement, frais variables, frais directs (direct product costs), coût proportionnel. (various references)

   

German

  

direkte Kosten, veränderliche Kosten (variable costs), Primärkosten (aboriginal cost), Einzelkosten (direct product costs, prime costs), Baukosten. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεταβλητό κόστος, άμεσα έξοδα (direct product costs, prime costs), δαπάναι κατασκευής. (various references)

   

Italian

  

costo delle opere di difesa, costi variabili (variable costs), costi proprorzionali, costi diretti (direct product costs, prime costs, variable costs). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irectday ostscay

   

Portuguese

  

encargos directos (direct product costs, prime costs), custos directos, custo proporcional, custo directo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

costos variables (variable costs), costo de primer establecimiento, costes proporcionales, costes directos. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

direkta kostnader (direct product costs, prime costs), byggkostnader (building costs). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DIRECT COSTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: codirects, dissector.

-3 letters: cestoids, codirect, cordites, cortices, cottiers, crosstie, distorts, scotties, steroids, trisects.

-4 letters: cerotic, cestoid, ciceros, ciscoes, codices, coedits, cordite, corsets, cosiest, costers, cotters, cottier, credits, cretics, crossed, decocts, directs, dissect, dissert, distort, docetic, dossier, dotiest, dotters, dottier, editors, erotics, escorts, orectic, rosiest, scoters, scottie, sectors, sitters, soccers, sorites, sortied, sorties, steroid.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-i-o-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+4 letters: corticosteroids, deconstructions, disconcertments.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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