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

Work on underground bridge foundations is a common cost driver, said University of Washington civil engineering professor Marc Eberhard.

From Seattle Times

All five of these management tips have a common cost: nothing.

From Forbes

In praise of praise – All of these small but valued forms of management recognition have a common cost: zero dollars and zero cents.  

From Forbes

The committee also wanted a joint U.S.-Israel “common cost model of Iron Dome components,” as well as “actual Iron Dome production costs beginning in fiscal year 2013; and component lead-times and delivery schedules for each fiscal year thereafter.”

From Washington Post