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opportunity cost
(redirected from Alternative cost)

   Also found in: Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.01 sec.
opportunity cost
the amount of money that is alienated by choosing to use it for one project rather than another, i.e. the opportunity to make a profit by investing in another project is lost.


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Each qualifying senior can preserve up to an additional $10,000 of his or her estate legacy over a 2-year length of residency while saving the alternative cost premium of private-pay nursing.
The alternative cost are ignored: Hours spent in rewrite of the manual, in reviewing and in counseling, by the writers and the technical people involved.
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