Opportunity cost


 

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Opportunity cost

The dollar value of income or profits lost due to committing resources to one opportunity in favor of another; lost profits from other opportunies which could have been pursued with the same resources.

Opportunity cost

The cost of something in terms of opportunity foregone. The opportunity cost to a country of producing a unit more of a good, such as for export or to replace an import, is the quantity of some other good that could have been produced instead.



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