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cost center

American

noun

any unit of activity, group of employees or machines, line of products, etc., isolated or arranged in order to allocate and assign costs more easily.

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cost center

It is now something closer to a fiscal cost center.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

AI ethics is “seen as a cost center, not a revenue center,” Chowdhury said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

Currently, the software for us is entirely a cost center.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022

At another meeting a commissioner said it would be "cool" if, instead of being a cost center, the jail could be a "profit center."

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021

The organization, once seen as an advantage, has become a cost center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2018

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