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cost-books

cost-books is the plural of cost-book.

Meaning of cost-book

Noun

cost-book (plural cost-books)

  1. (historical) A book containing the names and shares of the joint speculators in a mining enterprise.

Questions about cost-books

What is cost-books the plural of?
Cost-books is the plural of cost-book.

Words near cost-books in the dictionary

  1. cost, insurance and freight
  2. cost-
  3. cost-benefit analyses
  4. cost-benefit analysis
  5. cost-book
  6. cost-books
  7. cost-conscious
  8. cost-cutting
  9. cost-effective
  10. cost-effectively
  11. cost-effectiveness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cost-books (page history and authors); cost-book (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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