noun
Meaning 1
Additional costs; extra expenses.
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noun
Meaning 2
Overhead (expense)
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Topics: business, finance
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noun
Meaning 3
The cost of upkeep, making and maintaining shafts, roads, pumping, etc.
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Qualifier: coal-mining
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noun
Meaning 4
The indirect expenditure incurred for the purpose of increasing the productive power of organised labour.
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Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
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History
Etymology
From 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”).