Usually means: Costs that vary with production.
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  1. variable cost: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. variable cost: Merriam-Webster
  3. variable cost: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. variable cost: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. variable cost: Collins English Dictionary
  6. variable cost: Wiktionary
  7. variable cost: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. variable cost: Dictionary.com
  9. Variable Cost, Variable cost: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. variable cost: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Variable cost: bizterms.net
  4. Variable cost: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Variable cost: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. Variable Cost: Investopedia
  7. Variable Cost: Financial dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. variable cost: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (variable cost)

▸ noun:  (accounting) A cost that changes with the change in volume of activity of an organization.

Similar:
accounting cost, fixed cost, cost function, cost center, cost object, contingency cost, cost objective, operating cost, costing, cost centre, more...

Phrases:
semi variable cost, Average variable cost, more...

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Similar:
accounting cost, fixed cost, cost function, cost center, cost object, contingency cost, cost objective, operating cost, costing, cost centre, more...

Phrases:
semi variable cost, Average variable cost, more...



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