real cost

1. The cost of producing a good or service , including the cost of all resources used and the cost of not employing those resources in alternative uses.

Example Sentences

Talk of legalization today has a real cost to our families and families in other places.

From The Daily Beast

The real cost of the tablet is $40 but the Ministry of Education is subsidizing half the price.

From The Daily Beast

The questions now are: What was the real cost of these wars to the Arab world and its people.

From The Daily Beast

But mainly they want to get their way without any real cost.

From The Daily Beast

Henri named an extremely low figure—an exact fourth, to be accurate, of its real cost.

From Project Gutenberg

If the entrepreneurs were to sell the surplus product at its real cost of production they would have to give it away.

From Project Gutenberg

At least the depreciation should be figured on a basis of $3,400.00, the real cost of the machine.

From Project Gutenberg

But does this money cost to the individual correspond to, and measure, any real cost to the community as a whole?

From Project Gutenberg

The real cost in actual continued working is believed to be very much in excess of that figure where average conditions exist.

From Project Gutenberg