cost-benefit

[ kawst-ben-uh-fit, kost- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

cost-benefit

denoting or relating to a method of assessing a project that takes into account its costs and its benefits to society as well as the revenue it generates
a cost-benefit analysis
the project was assessed on a cost-benefit basis

First recorded in 1925–30

But now is not a good time to have a cost-benefit discussion, and there may never be a good time.

Nor am I going to go through the various cost-benefit reasons that we might want to allow guns, such as defensive uses.

But what appears to be the cost/benefit calculation of our military is troubling.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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