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Definition: Cost-plus |
Cost-plusAdjective1. Determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit; "a cost-plus government contract". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Cost-plus contracts may in certain cases be allowed if the contracting period is of long duration. (references) | |
Fixed-price, cost-plus, and incentive contracts are used. Fixed-price contracts are used most frequently. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | The government uses a standard cost-plus formula to determine pharmaceutical prices for new-to-market products. (references) |
Bahrain | Murabha is cost-plus financing--i.e., buying a product from a supplier and selling it to a customer for a profit. (references) | |
Belgium | In addition to enlarging the activities performed at distribution centers, the Belgian government has passed legislation allowing these activities to be taxed at a favorable cost-plus rate. (references) | |
Political Economy | INDIA | Prices in government outlets usually are regulated according to a cost-plus formula. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "cost-plus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | コストプラス契約 (cost-plus contract). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コストプラスけいやく (cost-plus contract). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ost-pluscay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-o-p-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: locusts, sculpts. | |
-2 letters: clouts, custos, locust, poults, scouts, sculps, sculpt, spouts, stoups, tossup, uptoss. | |
-3 letters: clops, clots, clout, colts, costs, coups, cults, cusps, cusso, locus, lotus, loups, louts, lusts, ousts, plots, posts, poult, pouts, scops, scots, scout, sculp, scups, scuts, slops, slots, sluts, solus, souls, soups, spots, spout, stops, stoup, tolus. | |
-4 letters: clop, clot. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-o-p-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: sculptors. | |
+3 letters: leucoplasts, speculators. | |
+4 letters: computerless, liposuctions, polystichous, portcullises, postsurgical, postulancies, scrupulosity, speculations, spiculations. | |
+5 letters: counterspells, fluoroscopist, postholocaust, proconsulates, scrumptiously, supplications. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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