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current cost

American  

noun

  1. a cost based on the prevailing price paid for material, labor, etc.


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But she couldn’t justify the current cost of airfare or gas, and besides: “Ground travel allows me to see new things.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Entire categories of work could be compressed into a fraction of their current cost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The current cost to attend Yale, which is part of the academic world’s famed Ivy League, is above $90,000 per academic year, with tuition accounting for nearly $70,000 of that amount.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026

She says the current cost of rail fares mean "you're almost forced to buy a car because it's much easier".

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

Part of this current cost 5 cents per kw-hr., and there were fairly heavy charges for connecting the tunnel wiring system with the source of supply.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by F. Lavis

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