cost-account

[ kawst-uh-kount, kost- ]

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to cost accounting.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cost-account¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

When repeated ad nauseam by architects all over the U.S. during the building boom of the 1950s, to the point where the curtain-wall grid had become the "rational," cost-account face of capitalism itself, it was bound to provoke a reaction.

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