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cost-effectively

cost-effectively adverb: in a cost-effective manner.

Adverb

cost-effectively

  1. In a cost-effective manner.
    • BR needed to replace these trains, cost-effectively.2024 August 21, Pip Dunn, “When Sprinters left the starting blocks”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 46

Origin of cost-effectively

From cost-effective + -ly.

Questions about cost-effectively

What does cost-effectively mean?
Cost-effectively means in a cost-effective manner.
What part of speech is cost-effectively?
Cost-effectively is an adverb.

Words near cost-effectively in the dictionary

  1. cost-book
  2. cost-books
  3. cost-conscious
  4. cost-cutting
  5. cost-effective
  6. cost-effectively
  7. cost-effectiveness
  8. cost-efficient
  9. cost-free
  10. cost-prohibitive
  11. cost-push inflation

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