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cost-plus
[ kawst-pluhs, kost- ]
adjective
- paid or providing for payment based on the cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit, as certain government contracts.
- of or relating to a cost-plus arrangement or contract.
cost-plus
noun
- a method of establishing a selling price in which an agreed percentage is added to the cost price to cover profit
- ( as modifier )
cost-plus pricing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cost-plus1
First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences
Production at this plant was to be on a cost-plus basis, the estimated cost of the material being 70 cents a pound.
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This bridge has a pile foundation which was put in by the Warren Construction Company on a cost plus basis for $1,583.32.
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This was done by Oscar Lindstrom on a basis of cost plus ten per cent.
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The contractor was paid on the basis of cost plus ten per cent for labor and plus five per cent for materials.
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He can never organize to put his industry in a "cost plus" basis as industrial producers do, and remedy must be found elsewhere.
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