Cost (disambiguation)

Cost is the value of money that has been used to produce something and is therefore no longer available.

It can also refer to:

Economics

• Economic cost, an overview of cost in the field of economics
  • Opportunity cost, the cost of something measured by the inability to spend the money elsewhere
  • Historical cost, also known as accounting cost, the original value of an economic item
  • Variable cost, costs of doing business that increase or decrease with the amount of revenue, such as labor and fuel
  • Fixed cost, costs of doing business that do not change, such as rent and administration
  • Average cost, the total cost of production divided by the number of items produced
    • Average fixed cost
    • Average variable cost
  • Marginal cost, the decrease in costs resulting from producing more items
  • Cost curve, a graph of cost of production over number of items produced

Other uses

• Court costs
  • Costs (English law)
• The Cost (album), the sixth studio album by The Frames
• The Cost (band), an American punk rock group
• "The Cost" (The Wire episode), a 2002 television episode
• European Cooperation in Science and Technology, abbreviated COST, a European intergovernmental organization