The phrase "adding the cost of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing financial calculations or budgeting, particularly when you want to include additional expenses in a total.
Example: "The final price of the project will be determined by adding the cost of materials and labor."
Alternatives: "including the cost of" or "factoring in the cost of".
And there should be no problem in adding the cost of his redemption penalty on to the new mortgage.
Across the Potomac River, in Maryland, parents can pay up to $12,000 a year on soccer after adding the cost of travel to out-of-state tournaments.
But if the two countries' imports are measured consistently (adding the cost of freight and insurance), America remained slightly ahead until last year.
It is a common trick at French hotels, and this one was no exception, to inflate the bill by adding the cost of breakfast to the price of the room, and then present the bill as a fait accompli.
Consolidating the two companies' debt and adding the cost of the merger will more than double the phone company's borrowings, to as much as 46 billion euros ($54 billion).
Mullins also accused newspapers of adding the cost of MPs' offices expenses and administrative staff to their basic salaries and implying that they were paid far more than they are.
The Tory modernisation programme was put in the freezer.Freed from the complexities of coalition, Mr Cameron now seems to be defrosting that programme and adding the cost-of-living dimension that its first iteration naively lacked.
They said Republicans recklessly cut taxes while adding the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the deficit.
The prices of combination therapies were calculated by adding the costs of the individual ingredients.
Mr. Norquist added: "The cost of government should be radically falling with all the new technologies.
When you add the cost of the water pollution, and health problems, this is really nothing".
