Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context finance English) The amount paid by a trader for goods purchased. 2 (context finance English) The cost to a manufacturer of producing an item, before any profit is taken.
Wikipedia
In retail systems, the cost price represents the specific value that represents unit price purchased. This value is used as a key factor in determining profitability, and in some stock market theories it is used in establishing the value of stock holding.
Usage examples of "cost price".
Now, the difference between the selling and cost price is enormous.
It was a regular shop, for Amsel let his capital work for him and had purchased in his mother's store, hence at cost price, hammers, two handsaws, drills, pliers, chisels, and the pocketknife equipped with three blades, a leather punch, a corkscrew, and a saw.
Not a glass of Lucan nor as much as the cost price of a highlandman's trousertree or the three crowns round your draphole (isn't it dram disgusting?
Electronic Solutions in the morning, see if they'll do it cost price.