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marginal cost

noun

, Economics.
  1. the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.


marginal cost

  1. The change in total cost of production when an output is varied by one unit.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of marginal cost1

First recorded in 1925–30

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Example Sentences

In fact, most people think they deserve to be the marginal cost consumer.

Now on top of that fixed cost you have a marginal cost: the amount that it costs you to actually put a patient in a room.

Let's say for simplicity's sake that our marginal cost is also $3,000 a month, for a total cost of $6,000 a month, or $200 a day.

As I've written before, Medicare pricing exploits the difference between the marginal cost and the average cost.

You could see Groupon being a good way to get rid of products that are high fixed cost, low marginal cost goods.

Marginal cost alternating with thick puncta; centre finely granulate with subtriangular elevations.

Marginal cost alternating with minute spines; centre nearly smooth, depressed, convex or flexuose.

Valve elliptical; surface transversely undulate, with short, marginal cost.

The desirable relation of price to marginal cost is but imperfectly attained.

This extra cost we can regard as constituting the marginal cost of mutton.

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