COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cost-benefit analysis" is a kind of...):

analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)

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