marginal cost

Other forms: marginal costs

Definitions of marginal cost
  1. noun
    the increase or decrease in costs as a result of one more or one less unit of output
    synonyms: differential cost, incremental cost
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    type of:
    cost, monetary value, price
    the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
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