Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unit cost

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English

Syllables
unit -cost
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The cost to acquire a unit of a good or service for a specific quantity that is produced or purchased. (For example, if it costs the baker 1000 pesos to produce a batch of biscuits that weigh 50 kilos, then their unit cost per kilo is 20 pesos.)

Inflected Forms

unit costs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

unit price

Questions

What does unit cost mean?
The cost to acquire a unit of a good or service for a specific quantity that is produced or purchased. (For example, if it costs the baker 1000 pesos to produce a batch of biscuits that weigh 50 kilos, then their unit cost per kilo is 20 pesos.)

How to pronounce unit cost

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