Sentence examples for foregone cost from inspiring English sources
It is estimated that interest foregone cost customers more than £3bn in 2013 alone.
Employer contributions in this program covered indirect cost only (i. e. foregone cost of production due to personnel absence).
An appropriately scaled charge or tax confronts pumpers with both the foregone user cost and the external cost (from increased pumping costs) imposed on neighbouring pumpers.
Remarkably, Prop. 5 saves money, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst: $1 billion per year in prison operations costs, plus $2.5 billion in foregone prison construction costs.
Research from professional services firm Grant Thornton suggests that, "based on return on assets, companies with diverse executive teams outperform by a significant margin in the three markets explored". It puts profit foregone - or "opportunity cost" by the companies with male-only boards at $655 billion across the three economies.
More fundamentally, even if the abolition of the tax on alcohol would bring economic benefits, what would be the gains and losses in government revenue and what are the opportunity costs foregone?
Electric utilities have proposed incentive mechanisms such as shared savings programs with the claim that energy efficiency programs create foregone investment and opportunity cost.
If we assume that the residents of Greenwich Village benefit from keeping things the way they are, then we have a situation where a relatively small group of well off individuals enjoy their little neighbourhood while the many others who must live in cheaper cities bear the cost of foregone opportunity.
An increase in unemployment increases the opportunity cost of foregone wages.
The biggest cost was foregone salary, quitting a nice job to do something speculative for no pay at all.
Direct schooling cost and foregone earnings of the child due to continuing education appear less problematic, which allows caregivers to be more optimistic and to expect higher educational attainment.
