The phrase "acknowledge the costs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the recognition or acceptance of expenses or negative consequences associated with a decision or action.
Example: "Before proceeding with the project, we must acknowledge the costs involved to ensure we are prepared for the financial implications."
Alternatives: "recognize the expenses" or "accept the financial implications."
But he said it was time to acknowledge the costs.
Proponents of withdrawal often acknowledge the costs of defeat but argue that the cause is hopeless anyway.
But if we really do want to turn away from taking appropriate action in the face of such an unspeakable outrage, then we must acknowledge the costs of doing nothing.
Other institutions are said to be in the process of drafting similar statements, or, at the least, planning to acknowledge the costs in the conference calls that surround quarterly earnings.Banks are trading below book value.
But, in order to sustain that consensus, we must acknowledge the costs of those mistakes, as measured in damage to some of our most essential beliefs: in the presumption of innocence, fair procedures, individual culpability, and the right to free speech.
Arax and Wartzman strive for evenhandedness but acknowledge the costs of Big Ag — such as evaporation ponds with selenium levels so high that ducks are born with corkscrewed beaks and no eyes, and the recurrent "hundred-year floods," stubborn attempts by the old lake to reassert itself.
But any such measures must acknowledge the cost of improving service and determine ways of paying for it.
The focus on how Predix can minimize the financial loss of production equipment failure does not acknowledge the cost of Predix encountering an internal fault or bug in its own code.
Cheap food is great, and we have to acknowledge that achievement, but we also have to acknowledge the cost of it.
In several instances, clinicians acknowledge the cost of medication as a contextual barrier along with other struggles related to low socio-economic status [ 83, 112].
