The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
oncost (plural oncosts)
Additional costs; extra expenses.
(finance) Overhead (expense)
(coal-mining) The cost of upkeep, making and maintaining shafts, roads, pumping, etc.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) The indirect expenditure incurred for the purpose of increasing the productive power of organised labour.
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Source: Wiktionary
On"cost`, n. (Accounting)
Definition: In cost accounting, expenditure which is involved in the process of manufacture or the performance of work and which cannot be charged directly to any particular article manufactured or work done (as where different kinds of goods are produced), but must be allocated so that each kind of goods or work shall bear its proper share. [Brit.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.