handling cost

1. 1.

   the cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order)

   Synonymshandling charge

   Broadercost

Questions about handling cost

What does handling cost mean?

handling cost means "the cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order)".

What is another word for handling cost?

Close synonyms include handling 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 handling cost a common word?

handling 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.