Meanings
- businessAt the purchasing price paid by the seller; without any markup.
I will sell you the apples at cost.
1 more example
It is no part of my purpose to make gain from this work. I had hoped to publish it in permanent form and distribute it among my friends as a present but it has grown to such proportions that that will not be practicable and I do hope that I maye ^([sic]) be able to sell enough copies at about cost to materially assist in the publication.
1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., published 1980, →OCLC, page 9
Translations
Finnish sisäänostohintaan
- sisäänostohintaanat the original price
French à prix coûtant
- à prix coûtantat the original price
Polish po kosztach
- po kosztachat the original price
Spanish a precio de coste, a costo y costas
- a precio de costeat the original price
- a costo y costasat the original price
- a coste y costasat the original price
Tagalog sa puhunan
- sa puhunanat the original price
Cite this entry
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