perceived cost
collocation in Englishmeaningsofperceiveandcost
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perceive
verb[T]
uk/pəˈsiːv/us/pɚ-/
to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief ...
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cost
noun
uk/kɒst/us/kɑːst/
the amount of money needed to buy, do, or ...
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(Definition ofperceiveandcostfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But what about the more specific attitudes toward the debt: the balance ofperceivedcostagainst perceived benefit?
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I believe that thisperceivedcosthas to be tackled at a national level and needs real government input.
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That is encouraged by theperceivedcostof motoring compared with the actual cost of rail and bus travel.
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Theperceivedcostmay appear high but the fact is that in real terms the cost is lower.
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The report noted that one of the explanations for the reluctance of elderly people to use heating in winter was the cost orperceivedcostof fuel.
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Theperceivedcostsaving is often illusory and one can end up paying as much, if not more, than if an item was in stock in the first place.
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The perceived costs and benefits of action will be related to previous experience of health-care seeking and illness behaviour.
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Stock prices capture the perceived costs and benefits of government policy change, whatever the policy instrument.
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This style of ' bringing government back in' raises questions about the perceived costs and benefits of devolved forms of network governance in environmental management.
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More recently, some researchers have argued that theperceivedcostsavings of a la carte pricing would be illusory for most subscribers and dramatically reduce revenues for programmers.
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The statistical evidence thus does not support hypotheses regarding asymmetries in the effects of perceived costs and benefits of alternative referendum outcomes.
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This can for example by estimated by the hours of independence gained by its usage, expressed in perceived utility or in perceived costs saving.
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These networks privileged producer interests to different extents and thus affected their opportunities to influence the design of tax schemes to minimize perceived costs.
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The perceived costs may outweigh the perceived benefits.
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Additionally, differences in the magnitudes of the perceived costs and perceived benefits of alternative referendum outcomes are not statistically significant.
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If the perceived costs and likelihood of defection are much smaller than the benefits of cooperation, the states should prefer an ' anarchic' intelligence sharing arrangement.
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Thisperceivedcostcan prevent consumers from switching to newly introduced sustainable products, that are designed to be resource efficient, thus having lower use costs than conventional products.
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I claim that the culture of compliance is, to a great extent, the outcome of taxpayers' interaction with the authorities and the internalisation of the perceived costs of compliance decisions.
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