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"opportunity costs" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to the potential benefits that a person could have received but gave up when making a specific decision. For example, "The opportunity costs of going to school full-time are lost wages, but the long-term benefits of a degree could greatly outweigh those short-term costs."
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opportunity costs
noun
Plural of opportunity cost
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There's opportunity costs right.
There are steep opportunity costs here.
But the opportunity costs are mounting.
All businesses face opportunity costs.
There are opportunity costs to not engaging.
"Life is about opportunity costs," he added.
Worse, they incur huge opportunity costs.
We'll assume there are no opportunity costs.
The opportunity costs can be profound.
"By evaluating opportunity costs, we organize our lives," Porter writes.
In science, as in everything else, there are opportunity costs.
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