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Definition: Cost Increase |
Cost IncreaseNoun1. An increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Cost IncreaseSynonyms: boost (n), hike (n), rise (n). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Colombia | The CIF duties, the 16 percent value-added tax (VAT), and other surcharges add a significant cost increase to imported products. (references) |
Netherlands | While an average labor cost increase between 1993 and 1996 lacked the eurozone average by 0.5 percentage points, the average labor cost increase between 1997 and 2000 exceeded the increase in competitor eurozone countries by 1.7 percentage points. (references) | |
Netherlands | Labor contracts for the year 2001 and 2002 concluded so far provide for an average contract wage rise of 4.1 percent and 4.2 percent respectively, the highest increase since 1992. The average per unit wage costs increase in 2001 and 2002 is forecast to accelerate to a level well in excess of an average four percent wage cost increase in 2000. This is in excess of the predicted average three percent wage costs rise for the Eurozone as a whole. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
2003 cost increase living | 23 |
health care cost increase | 6 |
2002 cost increase living wage | 3 |
average cost increase living | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: consecrates, reaccession. | |
-2 letters: accretions, ancestries, anorectics, antecessor, arccosines, consecrate, cornetcies, resections, resistance, secretions. | |
-3 letters: accentors, accession, accretion, acescents, acrostics, ancestors, anorectic, anoretics, arccosine, arsenites, assertion, canisters, canoeists, carotenes, centiares, cessation, cicerones, cineastes, cisternae, cocineras, cocreates, concisest, concretes, cosecants, creasiest, creatines, creations, crescents, croceines, croissant, earstones, ectosarcs, erections, esoterica, increases, irateness, iterances, narcotics, nectaries. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: bronchiectases. | |
+3 letters: deconsecrations, reconsecrations. | |
+4 letters: counterinstances. | |
+5 letters: archconservatives, microencapsulates. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 73 74 49 6E 63 72 65 61 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001001 01101110 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o s t   I n c r e a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0073 0074 0049 006E 0063 0072 0065 0061 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3781858624380698471678571 |
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