cost-account
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of cost-account
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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When repeated ad nauseam by architects all over the U.S. during the building boom of the 1950s, to the point where the curtain-wall grid had become the "rational," cost-account face of capitalism itself, it was bound to provoke a reaction.
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