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Replacement Cost

Definition: Replacement Cost

Replacement Cost

Noun

1. Current cost of replacing a fixed asset with a new one of equal effectiveness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Replacement Cost

DomainDefinitions

Business

The price which would be payable to replace an asset at a specific time. Source: European Union. (references)

Finance

The current cost of producing a similar building or piece of equipment equal in utility and quality to the building or equipment already existing. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Replacement Cost

Specialty definitions using "replacement cost": AUTOMOBILE-BODY REPAIRER, automobile-body workerbody repairer, bus, body-line finishercost approach to valuedent remover, Direct Flood Damage, door repairer, buselectric-sewer-cleaning-machine operatorFIRE-FIGHTING-EQUIPMENT SPECIALISTIBM 1620metal bumper, metal shrinker, metal workerSEWER-PIPE CLEANER, SHOP ESTIMATORtouch-up finisher, metal, TRAIN DISPATCHER, ASSISTANT CHIEF. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Replacement Cost

DomainTitle

Books

  • Accounting for Changing Prices: Replacement Cost and General Price Level Adjustments (reference)

  • Contributions of Limperg and Schmidt to the Replacement Cost Debate in the 1920s (New Works in Accounting History) (reference)

  • Effects and Significance of Replacement Cost (reference)

  • Impact of Replacement Cost on 14 U.S. Industries, 1976 and 1977 (reference)

  • Replacement Cost Accounting (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Replacement Cost

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Economic History

Ireland

There is an estimated replacement cost of $3.3 billion on capital investment in this sector. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Replacement Cost

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

  roof replacement cost

16

  replacement cost

11

  windshield replacement cost

10

  knee replacement cost

9

  hair replacement cost

8

  timing belt replacement cost

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Replacement Cost

Language Translations for "replacement cost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

udskiftningsomkostninger, genanskaffelsesværdi (replacement price, replacement value), genanskaffelsespriser (replacement price, replacement value), genanskaffelsespris. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vervangingswaarde (replacement price, replacement value), vervangingsprijs (replacement price, replacement value), vervangingskosten, heraanschaffingswaarde (replacement price, replacement value). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

jälleenhankintahinta (replacement price, replacement value). (various references)

   

French

  

valeur de remplacement (replacement price, replacement value), prix de remplacement (replacement price, replacement value), frais de remplacemnt, coût de remplacement. (various references)

   

German

  

Wiederbeschaffungskosten. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κόστος αντικατάστασης, έξοδα αντικατάστασης, αξία αντικατάστασης (replacement price, replacement value), τιμές κόστους αντικατάστασης (replacement price, replacement value), τιμή αντικατάστασης (replacement price, replacement value). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pótlási költség. (various references)

   

Italian

  

valore di sostituzione (replacement price, replacement value), prezzi di sostituzione (historic cost, replacement price, replacement value), costo di sostituzione (replacement price, replacement value), costo di rimpiazzo, costo della sostituzione. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eplacementray ostcay

   

Portuguese

  

valor de substituição (replacement price, replacement value), SEC 354 (replacement price, replacement value), custo de substituição (replacement price, replacement value). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

coste de sustitución, coste de reposición. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

återanskaffningspris (replacement price, replacement value). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Replacement Cost

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-l-m-n-o-p-r-s-t-t"

-3 letters: contemplates, replacements.

-4 letters: competences, contemplate, contretemps, electorates, letterspace, metacenters, opalescence, pearlescent, pentameters, receptacles, replacement, temperances, terneplates.

-5 letters: centralest, coalescent, coelentera, compacters, compactest, compensate, competence, complacent, completest, concealers, consecrate, contactees, corselette, electorate, elopements, entrecotes, escapement, escarpment, latecomers, leptotenes, metacenter, nettlesome, octameters, opalescent, pacesetter, palmettoes, penetrates, pentameter, percolates, placements, precancels, precontact, receptacle, recompense, recontacts, relocatees.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Replacement Cost


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 70 6C 61 63 65 6D 65 6E 74      43 6F 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110000 01101100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#112 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0070 006C 0061 0063 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074      0043 006F 0073 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5271827867697179718086237818586

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INDEX

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


  

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