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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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“I think they’re going to struggle,” he said of his son’s generation, citing the current cost of living.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

That’s up 7.7% from the current cost of $202.90.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 22, 2025

Depending on the model, the current cost of an iPhone can start from $599 but go over $1,000.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

That price is nearly three times more than the current cost of a hamburger Happy Meal at a McDonald's in Sacramento, California.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024

In this way the government raised six or seven billion dollars in a single year, approximately one third of the current cost of the war.

From A School History of the Great War by Gerson, Armand Jacques