direct cost

Najafi says all this compliance-related data wrangling can add 30% to 40% to the overhead of a company like his, in both direct cost and hours of staff time.

If we aren’t prepared to confront the direct costs to democracy, understanding who pays what price for unchecked misinformation is one way to increase accountability.

The total direct cost of this territory in money was under forty millions.

And in the waging of war, do we reckon the direct cost to commerce?

It was not merely the direct cost, however; there were the indirect penalties also.