common cost

American  

noun

Accounting.

1. costs assignable to two or more products, operations, departments, etc., of a company.

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Example Sentences

But the unions calculated that the old pattern of mutually dismissive relations between organised labour and government had altered since the pandemic and in the shared pain of a common cost of living crisis.

From BBC • May 25, 2023

The more common cost of decent living in our Eastern cities is: Rent   1000 to   1500 Meals   1200 to   1400 Clothing     500 to     700 Incidentals     300 to     600 Savings, nil.    

From The Cost of Shelter by Richards, Ellen H.