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Definition: Unit Cost |
Unit CostNoun1. Calculated cost for a given unit of a product. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Federal Student Aid | The total cost of operations divided by the number of items produced (a "unit"). For example, at FSA a unit is a recipient of a grant or loan. Decreasing unit cost is one of FSA's three Performance Objectives. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Unit Cost |
| Specialty definitions using "unit cost": ANALYST, FOOD AND BEVERAGE ♦ Cost of production ♦ estimated cost, estimated prime cost ♦ historical cost ♦ normal cost ♦ predetermined cost ♦ research worker, kitchen. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Portugal | This would be the marginal unit cost of production in the United States plus Portuguese market-specific costs associated with overseas promotion, labeling and packaging expenses. (references) |
Trade | Netherlands | Although no special format is prescribed for the commercial invoice, it is advisable to include the following: date and place of shipment; name (firm's name) and address of the seller and buyer; method of shipment; number, markings of the packages, and their numerical order; description of the goods using the usual commercial description according to kind, quality, grade, and the weight (gross and net, in metric units), along with any factors increasing or decreasing the value; agreed price of goods; unit cost; total cost f.o.b. factory plus shipping; insurance charges; delivery and payment terms; and the signature of a responsible official of the shipper's firm. (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 |
unit cost | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unit cost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | náklady na jednotku produkce. (various references) | |
Danish | omkostning pr.enhed. (various references) | |
Dutch | kosten per eenheid. (various references) | |
French | coût unitaire, "coût unitaire". (various references) | |
German | Stückkosten (average cost). (various references) | |
Greek | κόστοσ μονάδασ, κόστος ανά μονάδα. (various references) | |
Italian | costo unitario. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 単価 (unit price). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た"か (31-syllable Japanese poem, carbonization, caustic words, litter, red flower, stretcher, tanka, unit price). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itunay ostcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | "custo unitário". (various references) | |
Spanish | coste unitario. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: suction. | |
-2 letters: coitus, counts, cousin, cutins, outsin, outsit, stotin, tincts, tocsin, tonics, tunics. | |
-3 letters: cions, coins, conus, count, cutin, cutis, icons, ictus, incus, ontic, scion, scout, snout, sonic, stint, stoic, stout, stunt, suint, tinct, tints, toits, tonic, tonus, touts, tunic, uncos, units. | |
-4 letters: cion, cist, coin, coni, cons, cost, cots, cuts, icon, into, ions. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-o-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: actuations, constitute, instructor. | |
+3 letters: astronautic, constituent, constituted, constitutes, contentious, continuants, contributes, countersuit, cunctations, destruction, eructations, instruction, instructors, obstructing, obstruction, outdistance, punctations, rustication, subtraction, truncations, urtications. | |
+4 letters: astronautics, auscultation, cementitious, commutations, computations, confutations, constituency, constituents, constituting, constitution, constitutive, constructing, construction, constructive, consultation, consultative, contiguities, continuators, continuities, contributors, counterfeits, counterstain, countersuits, crosscutting, cultivations, destructions, educationist, elocutionist, encrustation, fluctuations, incrustation, instructions, micturitions, noctambulist, obscurantist, obstructions, occultations, outdistanced, outdistances, punctuations, reconstitute, reductionist, reluctations, rustications, sansculottic, shortcutting, stonecutting, stupefaction, subcontinent, subtractions, transduction, tumefactions, unconstraint, woodcuttings. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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