cost-plus

1. 1.

   determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit

   “a cost-plus government contract”

   Similarindeterminate

Questions about cost-plus

What does cost-plus mean?

cost-plus means "determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit".

How many syllables are in cost-plus?

cost-plus has 2 syllables and divides as cost--plus under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is cost-plus a common word?

cost-plus 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.