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COST-PLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cost-plus mean? 

COST-PLUS (adjective)
  The adjective COST-PLUS has 1 sense:

1. determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profitplay

  Familiarity information: COST-PLUS used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COST-PLUS (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit

Context example:

a cost-plus government contract

Similar:

indeterminate; undetermined (not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance)


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