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unit cost

n. The cost to acquire a unit of a good or service for a specific quantity that is purchased.

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unit cost

n. calculated cost for a given unit of a product

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Unit cost

The unit cost is the cost incurred by a company to produce, store and sell one unit of a particular product. Unit costs include all fixed costs and all variable costs involved in production.

Usage examples of "unit cost".

Thus it must be efficiently productive, so that the fixed costs of operation are overcome and the unit cost of manufacturing is lower than the market price of the product offered.

We expect to get the unit cost for these drives down to the price of a video-game unit within a year.

Each unit cost as much as a small corporation, placing it well out of the financial reach of the individual and all but the most extravagant conglomerate executive officers.

This unit cost in turn reflected the richness of the ore body, its remoteness, the availability of local labor, political conditions, the possible need to build airfields, roads, hospitals, mines, or refineries.

UAVs have two big advantages over conventional aircraft low unit cost, and zero pilot mortality.

If it worked it would have a respectable range, high reliability, and low unit cost.

Brent, the plans for several new machines which would decrease the per-unit cost of production, with several interruptions from Trent.

Really the only way to make hardware cheap is to punch out an incredible number of copies of it, so that the unit cost eventually drops.

Much more important than shaving a few mils off the unit cost of polypropylene, say, or evaluating consultants' reports on alternative catalytic systems for hydrogenation.

Brota had paid, because haggling was much easier when she knew her opponent's unit cost.