Sentence examples for a variable cost from inspiring English sources

"And it's a variable cost model.

An airline seat, for example, has a variable cost of around $15.

"They are desperate to transform labour from a fixed to a variable cost," he says.

Having such a variable cost base makes it easier to reduce expenses without cutting jobs.

Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity.

There may be a variable cost (subject to user approval) for review of the vendor's response by ITS.

Outsourcing enables them to shed factories and shift manufacturing from a fixed-cost to a variable-cost structure.

Outsourcing enables them to shed factories and to shift manufacturing from a fixed-cost to a variable-cost structure.

"If I'm designing a card, even if it's a $500 benefit, I would rather have a fixed-cost feature than a variable-cost feature," Israel says.

However, unlike most vendors who bill law firms and their clients on a variable-cost model (hourly labor, per-gigabyte, etc)., Modus instead signs its clients up for fixed-fee managed service deals.

The fresh investment prompted speculation that SpinVox is burning through cash very quickly, and reignited suspicion that rather than being a scaleable, fixed-cost business, as Domecq has always claimed, SpinVox is actually a variable-cost business of questionable scaleability (thanks to large-scale employment of human operators).