"imminent costs" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to any costs that are likely to occur soon or be unavoidable in the near future. For example, "The company is facing imminent costs due to the switch in suppliers."
It feels like an anomaly at a time when BBC News will cut up to 600 jobs as part of a further imminent cost-cutting drive.
And as we are already suffering the consequences of their failure, it should remind us that every day of delay has a massive and imminent cost.
Add to that, some drivers may also be facing a bill payment falling due, such as a lease on a car, which means they feel they have to drive to earn income in the short term to cover an imminent cost.
The need for inexpensive alternative to indium doped tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes is imminent for cost-efficient solution processed optoelectronic applications.
The risks facing the eurozone have been reduced since the summer, when a Greek exit looked imminent and borrowing costs for Spain and Italy reached new and unsustainable heights.
Nonprofits, in turn, are more likely to serve short-living patients, such as those with late-stage cancer, where death is imminent and the cost of care is more expensive.
Article 118a is thus a harbinger of imminent debates on the costs of an adequate social policy and the potential for social dumping in the internal market.
The indication that a rate rise would be delayed helped to calm investors unnerved by the prospect of an imminent tightening in credit costs in the world's largest economy.
Threadneedle Street's aim has been to use forward guidance to reassure households and businesses that they can borrow without the risk of an imminent rise in borrowing costs.
Indications that a rate increase would be delayed in the US helped calm investors unnerved by the prospect of an imminent tightening in credit costs in the world's largest economy.
