cost-effective
producing optimum results for the expenditure.
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- Also cost-efficient.
Other words from cost-effective
- cost-ef·fec·tive·ly, adverb
- cost-ef·fec·tive·ness, noun
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How to use cost-effective in a sentence
The ad, he said, “got my name out there in a cost-effective way.”
Critics say the program is not cost-effective, that academic gains made at the end of a year fade over time.
And so the national PREA standards lay out concrete, practical, and cost-effective procedures for officials to follow.
Comedy is a cost-effective tactic to unmask this insecurity and undermine tyranny around the world.
It may be cheaper or more cost-effective to take action now than to wait and find we have to pay much more later.
Margaret Thatcher Sounded the Alarm on Climate Change | David Frum | April 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Bedevilled by limited financial resources, they regard the new medium as a cost effective way of disseminating their messages.
After the Rain | Sam Vaknin
British Dictionary definitions for cost-effective
providing adequate financial return in relation to outlay
Derived forms of cost-effective
- cost-effectiveness, noun
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