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cost-effective
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cost-effective
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ He also maintains strobilurins are more cost-effective if disease-ridden varieties are avoided.
▪ In the medium term prove to be more cost-effective.
▪ Overall the system appeared to be even more cost-effective than the estimates, with a pay-back period of 2.6 years.
▪ In that way it would increase the number of such clients supported and thus become an even more cost-effective service.
▪ Your employer may consider it more cost-effective to retain junior employees who are paid less than you.
▪ Often an arrangement is accepted as being faster, more cost-effective and more humane.
▪ Rather cuts should come from examination of working methods and materials and introducing more cost-effective measures.
▪ Improving the quality of professional training and decision making might be a more cost-effective solution to the problem of supply-led services.
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▪ What is the most cost-effective and efficient way of achieving those ends remains to be decided after proper examination.
▪ They will have an interest in knowing that the treatment technologies used in the secondary care sector are the most cost-effective available.
▪ External consultants and Data Archive consultants will assist in designing the most cost-effective way of preparing the data for deposition.
▪ The successful development of negotiating skills has proved itself as one of the most cost-effective investments in company profitability.
▪ It is also not the most cost-effective way to handle a matter.
▪ In ergonomic studies cost per unit of energy applied manually significantly exceeds other energy costs with chemical energy being the most cost-effective.
▪ The comprehensive system is by far the simplest and most cost-effective way of educating children according to their needs.
■ NOUN
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▪ And it will do all this in a highly cost-effective way.
▪ This, they argue, offers the most cost-effective way to serve patients.
▪ Bioremediation appears to be a very attractive, and in many cases a cost-effective way of cleaning up many contaminated sites.
▪ The hospitality industry has been particularly interested in providing an easier and more cost-effective way to be accessible to traveling customers.
▪ Its key responsibility is to ensure that the manufacturing process is fully supplied with materials in a cost-effective way.
▪ Looking ahead, businesses will find application outsourcing to be a more productive and cost-effective way to meet their desktop application needs.
▪ There are few more cost-effective ways to invest relatively small sums of money than reinstating the support funding for tourism.
▪ External consultants and Data Archive consultants will assist in designing the most cost-effective way of preparing the data for deposition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cost-effective way to reduce pollution
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fourth, intervention by government is assumed to be cost-effective, meaning that objectives are achieved at minimum cost to the taxpayer.
▪ How can that possibly be cost-effective in terms of the operation of a paratroop battalion?
▪ MiLAN is committed to providing cost-effective solutions for networked Unix users.
▪ New, more cost-effective plans should be available June 1, he said.
▪ Nursery and child-minding facilities should be introduced if there appears to be a level of demand which would make it cost-effective.
▪ They are also cost-effective and labour-saving as they can be changed weekly.
▪ This is therefore likely to encourage clinicians to search for more cost-effective procedures.
▪ This, they argue, offers the most cost-effective way to serve patients.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cost-effective

also cost effective, 1967, from cost (n.) + effective.\n

Wiktionary
cost-effective

a. Returning a benefit that justifies the initial investment; economical.

WordNet
cost-effective

adj. productive relative to the cost [syn: cost-efficient]

Usage examples of "cost-effective".

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There had been this panel of exobiologists who were arguing that the cost-effective way to colonize another world in both time and money would be parallel physical and biological modification programs.

These prime movers are very cost-effective, but they need a lot of time to traverse a lot of space.

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