The phrase "alternative cost" is not correct in standard English; the correct term is "opportunity cost." You can use it when discussing economics or decision-making, specifically when referring to the potential benefits lost when choosing one option over another.
Example: "When considering whether to invest in stocks or bonds, it's important to evaluate the opportunity cost of each choice."
Alternatives: "opportunity cost" or "foregone cost."
In this work we focus on the additive cost framework described in (Kurve et al. 2011a) (See Appendix Appendix B: a local cost function) and the alternative cost framework (See Appendix Appendix C: an alternate cost framework).
The program provides alternative, cost friendly transportation to the Syracuse Airport during student breaks.
They're looking at alternative cost situations where they can get the same work done at a better price".
This suggests that we can design alternative cost functions that are robust to occlusions using synthetic apertures.
A key concept of this new model of disease risk is the influence of the principle of alternative cost (or opportunity cost) and its importance in understanding the true economic effect of decisions regarding health management.
In this paper, an alternative cost model that employs the Burr distribution is proposed to deal with the economic design of the VSI X̄-charts when the normality assumption of process data is unacceptable.
It is highly desirable to develop alternative cost-effective adsorbents for iodine capture and sequestration.
This creates the need for alternative cost-effective sources for material that are available locally.
The developed method can provide an alternative cost-effective option for the real-time deflection measurement of cable-stayed bridges.
Next, we develop numerical methods for solving the necessary conditions of optimality, and alternative cost-efficient algorithms are discussed.
Two alternative, cost- and time-effective dioxin screening methods relying on two categories of potential lipid biomarkers were investigated.
