According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.
ONCOST
Etymology
Noun
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.
Anagrams
• Coston, contos, nostoc
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
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