The phrase "avoid costs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies or actions aimed at minimizing expenses or financial burdens.
Example: "To improve our profit margins, we need to find ways to avoid costs without sacrificing quality."
Alternatives: "reduce expenses" or "cut costs".
They added that part of the decline could be due to developers who build elsewhere to avoid costs of additional work to fill wet areas.
The government is believed to have agreed to a "just in time" approach to training the guards in a bid to avoid costs spiralling further.
He says that at the 90% level many employees actually profit by staying at home, since they avoid costs such as travel and meals out.
The agency's chairman, Mr. Powell, has said that his instinct is to subject telephone calls made using Internet technology to only minimal regulation in order to avoid costs and bureaucracy that he says would slow innovation and competition.
Choosing not to expand your business can help you avoid costs associated with growth, such as staffing overheads, business tax and larger premises, but Irvine cautions that no business can afford to stand still, and that capping growth can also limit potential.
Others griped that it was "acceptable to avoid costs related to integrity management because the consequences might occur later, on someone else's watch .In their report, the consultants say they had "never seen such intensity of worry among people 'closest to the valve' about the potential for fires, explosions and other catastrophic events".
The price increase, it says, is a way for the utility to avoid cost-cutting.
Cost engineering key objectives is to ensure cost estimates' accuracy and to avoid cost overruns.
ExAC is a helpful tool to avoid cost-/time-intensive screenings and misinterpretations of detected variants.
For every dollar spent preparing for climate change, we can save $7 in avoided costs.
No thought is given to long-term anything: actual costs, avoided costs, or benefits.
