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opportunity costs

opportunity costs is the plural of opportunity cost.

Meaning of opportunity cost

Noun

opportunity cost (plural opportunity costs)

  1. The cost of an opportunity forgone (and the loss of the benefits that could be received from that opportunity); the most valuable forgone alternative.
    • Thanks to business school, I can understand how I've actually paid for this time at home with my family—the opportunity cost of my time, my forgone income, etc.2004 June 7, “Jeff Pillet-Shore: Second Year Winds Down”, in BusinessWeek, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2005, retrieved 30 Oct 2008

Questions about opportunity costs

What is opportunity costs the plural of?
Opportunity costs is the plural of opportunity cost.

Words near opportunity costs in the dictionary

  1. opportunity
  2. opportunity class
  3. opportunity classes
  4. opportunity comes knocking
  5. opportunity cost
  6. opportunity costs
  7. opportunity knocks
  8. opportunity knocks at every man's door
  9. opportunity makes a thief
  10. opportunity makes the thief
  11. opportunity room

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