oncost
oncost · oncosts
Additional costs; extra expensesAdditional costs; extra expenses.
Meaning
4 sensesAdditional costs; extra expenses.
Overhead (expense)
The cost of upkeep, making and maintaining shafts, roads, pumping, etc.
(Scotland, UK, dialectal)The indirect expenditure incurred for the purpose of increasing the productive power of organised labour.
Origin
From on- + cost, or from Middle English uncost (“additional expense”), from Middle Dutch oFrom on- + cost, or from Middle English uncost (“additional expense”), from Middle Dutch oncost (“expenses, overhead”) (Modern Dutch onkost), equivalent to un- + cost. Cognate with German Unkosten (“expenses”).
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