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COST CONTROL

Specialty Definition: COST CONTROL

DomainDefinition

Business

The main objectives of -- are to measure efficiency and to keep costs within a specified range. Source: European Union. (references)

General

Process of maintaining levels of expenditure within budget headings. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: COST CONTROL

Synonyms: Cost containment, Cost reduction. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: COST CONTROL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Economy

Cost-cutting, cost control.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: COST CONTROL

Specialty definitions using "COST CONTROL": CHEF, PASSENGER VESSEL ♦ DIETETIC TECHNICIAN, DIETITIAN, TEACHING, DIRECTOR, FOOD AND BEVERAGE, DIRECTOR, RECORDS MANAGEMENT, DIRECTOR, TRANSPORTATION ♦ STEWARD/STEWARDESS, CHIEF, CARGO VESSEL. (references)

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Commercial Usage: COST CONTROL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Achieving effective cost control in comprehensive health care reform : hearings of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on examining methods to control excessive health care costs, (reference)

  • Bellaire Guide to TV Commercial Cost Control (reference)

  • In pursuit of profits : how to at least double your profits without increasing your sales, including 1,000 cost control, expense reduction, and income producing strategies you can start using today to dramatically increase your bottom line (reference)

  • Basic Food and Beverage Cost Control (reference)

  • Miller/Food and Beverage Cost Control, 2nd Edition and Blocker/Culinary Math (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: COST CONTROL

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Since the 1980's, cost control has been a central goal of Dutch healthcare policy. (references)

The investment from Formosa Plastics considerably influenced local production in 1999, which jumped from USD 179 million in 1998 to USD 249 million in 1999. Imports in 1997 were high at USD 272 million but trickled off to USD 246 million and USD 245 million in 1998 and 1999. Like most Taiwanese companies, Formosa Plastics has a strong penchant for cost control. (references)

Economic History

Burma

Region Air will supposedly provide management, marketing, accounting, cost control, and technical and operational management. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COST CONTROL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cost control

31

manufacturing cost control

14

unemployment cost control

12

construction cost control

10

food cost control

9

business cost control

5

restaurant labor cost control

3

restaurant cost control

2

food and beverage cost control

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COST CONTROL

Language Translations for "COST CONTROL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

omkostningskontrol. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kostenbeheersing, kostenbeheer. (various references)

   

French

  

contrôle des coûts, limitation du prix de revient. (various references)

   

German

  

Kostenkontrolle. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έλεγχος δαπανών. (various references)

   

Italian

  

controllo dei costi. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

コジアスコ山 (co-generation system, cost, cost down, cost inflation, cost per thousand, cost performance, cost saving, cost up, Costa Rica, cost-push inflation, costume, Mount Kosciusko). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

コストコントロール . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ostcay ontrolcay

   

Portuguese

  

controlo de custos. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

control presupuestario, control de gastos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COST CONTROL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-l-n-o-o-o-r-s-t-t"

-3 letters: contorts, controls.

-4 letters: cocoons, consort, contort, control, cottons, crotons, rococos.

-5 letters: cloots, cocoon, colons, colors, consol, contos, cotton, croons, croton, lottos, nostoc, rococo, stolon.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-l-n-o-o-o-r-s-t-t"
 

+4 letters: optoelectronics.

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction 		5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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