carrying charge

1. 1.

   charge made for carrying an account or for merchandise sold on an installment plan

   Broadercharge
2. 2.

   the opportunity cost of unproductive assets; the expense incurred by ownership

   Synonymscarrying cost

   Broaderopportunity cost

Questions about carrying charge

What does carrying charge mean?

carrying charge means "charge made for carrying an account or for merchandise sold on an installment plan". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for carrying charge?

Close synonyms include carrying cost. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carrying charge a common word?

carrying charge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.