carrying cost

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscarrying charge

   Broaderopportunity cost

Questions about carrying cost

What does carrying cost mean?

carrying cost means "the opportunity cost of unproductive assets; the expense incurred by ownership".

What is another word for carrying cost?

Close synonyms include carrying charge. 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 cost a common word?

carrying cost 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.