CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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cosset in CommonParlance
- definition treat with excessive indulgence
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cost in CommonParlance
- definition the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
- definition the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- definition value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- definition be priced at
- definition require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
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cost accountant in CommonParlance
- definition a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
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cost accounting in CommonParlance
- definition keeping account of the costs of items in production
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cost analysis in CommonParlance
- definition breaking down the costs of some operation and reporting on each factor separately
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cost cutting in CommonParlance
- definition the act of cutting costs
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cost increase in CommonParlance
- definition an increase in cost
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cost ledger in CommonParlance
- definition ledger showing the accumulated costs classified in various ways
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cost of capital in CommonParlance
- definition the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk
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cost of living in CommonParlance
- definition average cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing)
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cost of quality in CommonParlance
- definition a means to quantify the total cost of quality-related efforts and deficiencies.
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cost overrun in CommonParlance
- definition excess of cost over budget
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cost structure analysis in CommonParlance
- definition economic analysis of how much it will cost a company to manufacture a product and how much profit will be recognized from manufacturing the product.
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cost-benefit analysis in CommonParlance
- definition an analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs
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cost-effective in CommonParlance
- definition productive relative to the cost
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cost-efficient in CommonParlance
- definition productive relative to the cost
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cost-of-living allowance in CommonParlance
- definition an allowance for changes in the consumer price index
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cost-of-living benefit in CommonParlance
- definition a benefit that goes to anyone whose money receipts increase automatically as prices rise
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cost-of-living index in CommonParlance
- definition an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
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cost-plus in CommonParlance
- definition determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit
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cost-plus contract in CommonParlance
- definition a contract in which the contractor is paid their total cost plus a stated percentage of profit
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cost-pull inflation in CommonParlance
- definition inflation caused by an increase in the costs of production
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costa in CommonParlance
- definition a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
- definition any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
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costal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or near a rib
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costal cartilage in CommonParlance
- definition the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration