running cost
noun[C,usually plural]
ukusthemoneyyou need tospendregularlytokeepasystemororganizationworking:
Withlowerrunningcostsmanycompanieshavehealthybalancesheets.
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Rectangular clarifiers are commonly used for high efficiency and lowrunningcost.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the hospital had over six million rupees in liabilities ofrunningcost.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The league'srunningcostwas funded by contributions from various companies.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Practical lighting design calculations must allow for ballast loss in estimating therunningcostof a lighting installation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The highrunningcostper hour is offset by the low capital cost and the intention to run such units only a few hundred hours per year.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This production had a large cast and orchestra, resulting in a significant weeklyrunningcostthat demanded the show be a popular success in order to prove financially worthwhile.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mouse is a useful laboratory animal for such a purpose because of its short generation interval and low unitrunningcost.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Where could there be a greater overhead charge, a greaterrunningcost, than a million and a quarter unemployed men?
From the
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Training has to be considered to be an investment and not arunningcost.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The forecastrunningcostfor 1997–98 is approximately £230.
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