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lower-cost

lower-cost is the comparative form of low-cost.

Meaning of low-cost

Adjective

low-cost (comparative lower-cost or more low-cost, superlative lowest-cost or most low-cost)

  1. Low in price; cheap, inexpensive.
    • For passengers, the decline in numbers using the short sea route (to 1.8 million in 2017) reflects the emergence of low-cost airlines and the expansion of flights serving Ireland from many regional airports in Britain.2020 November 18, Industry Insider, “Improving rail connectivity”, in Rail, page 68

Questions about lower-cost

What is lower-cost the comparative form of?
Lower-cost is the comparative form of low-cost.

Words near lower-cost in the dictionary

  1. lower-cased
  2. lower-cases
  3. lower-casing
  4. lower-class
  5. lower-classness
  6. lower-cost
  7. lower-density
  8. lower-down
  9. lower-emission
  10. lower-end
  11. lower-fat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lower-cost (page history and authors); low-cost (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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