cost-ef·fec·tive

[kawst-i-fek-tiv, kost-]
adjective
producing optimum results for the expenditure.

cost-ef·fec·tive·ly, adverb
cost-ef·fec·tive·ness, noun
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cost-effective
 
adj
providing adequate financial return in relation to outlay
 
cost-effectiveness
 
n

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Cost effective is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example sentences
In the mean time, fission is proven and cost effective.
These devices are not cheap, cost effective, or safe.
If it the tests had showed that nukes were great to use at construction sites
  and were cost effective then sweet, let's use them.
Tools and techniques have evolved to provide this at a more reliable and cost
  effective manner.
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