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PRONUNCIATION OF UNIT COST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNIT COST

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Unit cost is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNIT COST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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.

Definition of unit cost in the English dictionary

The definition of unit cost in the dictionary is the actual cost of producing one article.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNIT COST

unit
unit cell
unit character
unit factor
unit furniture
unit holder
unit magnetic pole
unit of account
unit of measurement
unit price
unit pricing
unit process
unit rule
unit set
unit trust
unit-linked policy
Unit.
UNITA
unitage
unital

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNIT COST

accost
alecost
at any cost
baseline cost
capital cost
cost
distribution cost
factor cost
low-cost
oncost
opportunity cost
Pentecost
plant cost
prime cost
replacement cost
standard cost
variable cost

Synonyms and antonyms of unit cost in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «unit cost» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNIT COST

Find out the translation of unit cost to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unit cost from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unit cost» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

单位成本
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

costo unitario
570 millions of speakers

English

unit cost
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इकाई लागत
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

تكلفة الوحدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стоимость единицы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

custo unitário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইউনিট খরচ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coût unitaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

kos unit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stückkosten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

単価
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단위 원가
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Biaya unit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chi phí đơn vị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அலகு விலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

युनिट खर्च
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

birim maliyet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

costo unitario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

koszt jednostkowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вартість одиниці
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cost unitar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μοναδιαίο κόστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koste per eenheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

enhetskostnad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enhetskostnaden
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unit cost

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNIT COST»

The term «unit cost» is regularly used and occupies the 67.067 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNIT COST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unit cost

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNIT COST»

Discover the use of unit cost in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unit cost and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cost Management: Accounting and Control
Importance of Unit Costs to Manufacturing Firms Unit cost is a critical piece of information for a manufacturer. Unit costs are essential for valuing inventory, determining income, and making a number of important decisions. Disclosing the cost ...
Don Hansen, Maryanne Mowen, Liming Guan, 2007
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Managerial Accounting
Unit sales price or unit cost The effects of the preceding factors on sales or variable costs may be stated as follows: 1. Quantity factor: The effect of a difference in the number of units sold, assuming no change in unit sales price or unit cost.
Carl Warren, James Reeve, Jonathan Duchac, 2008
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Cost Estimator's Reference Manual
The coordinate points for the Crawford system, or unit cost system, are formulated such that the cost or value for each unit is plotted directly at the particular unit in question, that is, the time or cost for the tenth unit, or the 30th unit, forms the ...
Rodney D. Stewart, Richard M. Wyskida, James D. Johannes, 1995
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Sweets Unit Cost Guide 2014
Keep your estimates, bids, specifications, and cost checks right on target with precise, thoroughly researched unit construction costs. Ensure data accuracy to your region with Sweets 1,000+ location modifiers. Sweets 2014 Unit Cost Guide.
Bni Building News Inc., BNI Publications, 2013
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Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
We also can see that a variable cost remains the same per unit as the level of activity changes. As part (b) of Illustration 5-1 shows, the unit cost of $10 for the clocks is the same whether Damon produces 2,000 or 10,000 radios. Illustration 5-1 ...
Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso, 2009
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Wiley CPA Exam Review 2008: Business Environment and Concepts
(b) The requirement is to calculate the equivalent unit cost of materials using the FIFO method. The amount is determined by dividing the cost of materials used during the month by the number of equivalent units of production, which is equal to ...
O. Ray Whittington, Patrick R. Delaney, 2007
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Public Employment, Its Unit Cost and Socio-economic Profile
The unit cost of employment could be denned as the per capita cost of an additional job created either in the central government or in public undertakings. In finding out the unit cost of creating a job, additional (marginal) increase in salary and ...
Raj Kishore Wishwakarma, 1988
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Principles of Food, Beverage, and Labor Cost Controls
If there are 15, the unit cost is an average of $6.55. No two of the 15 steaks are likely to have identical costs, because it is not normally possible for a butcher to cut all steaks to exactly the same weight. In the food and beverage business, we  ...
Paul R. Dittmer, J. Desmond Keefe, 2008
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Randomized Algorithms
In the unit-cost RAM (sometimes also called the uniform RAM), each instruction can be performed in one time step. This model is believed to be much too powerful since there is no known polynomial-time simulation of this model by Turing ...
Rajeev Motwani, Prabhakar Raghavan, 1995
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Principles of accounting
In this case, the product unit cost was computed after the job was completed and all cost information was known. Sometimes, however, a manufacturer needs to know product unit cost during production, when the actual direct materials costs ...
Belverd E. Needles, Marian Powers, Susan V. Crosson, 2008

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNIT COST»

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CORRECTED-UPDATE 3-Air France-KLM speeds up cost cuts as …
The group reiterated plans to improve unit costs by between 1 and 1.3 percent or 250 to 300 million euros over the year as a whole. Unit costs fell 0.5 percent in ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
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Citing safety, cost, focus, Harford sheriff discontinues aviation unit
The sheriff noted in an interview Tuesday that the unit cost nearly $700,000 to operate the unit for about one year, including personnel salaries and benefits. «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»
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Virgin America expects higher capacity, flat unit costs in 2016
April 30 Virgin America Inc expects 2016 capacity to be up in the "teens" as it adds aircraft to its fleet, while unit costs excluding fuel and profit-sharing expenses ... «Reuters, Apr 15»
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The cost of binge drinking: in numbers
The Department of Health estimates the cost of attending A&E at £114 per person per visit. The average unit cost of an arrest is £14,836, according to figures ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
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Boeing expects most of defense unit cost cuts from supply chain
N) defense, space and security business said on Monday that nearly two-thirds of the $6 billion in cost cutting the unit is undertaking will come from savings ... «Reuters, Aug 14»
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State's GET prepaid tuition keeps unit price at $172
Tuition and fees at less expensive schools cost fewer units and housing is extra. ... Two years ago, one tuition unit cost $117, which at $11,700 for 100 units ... «KOMO News, Sep 13»
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F-35 Deal Targets Unit Cost Below $100 Million
However, the company says that unit cost of each variant will be reduced by about 4% lot over lot. Based on the pricing targets for LRIP 5, which was inked late ... «Aviation Week, Jul 13»
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Nimrod destruction cost taxpayer £3.4bn as MoD ignored 'cost
The decision to scrap three of the 25 A400M transport aircraft, replacing the Hercules, had led to a 46 per cent increase in the unit cost of each aircraft. «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 12»

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