carrying cost
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- noun
- /ˈkɛr.i.ɪŋ kɔst/
- Specialized
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costo de mantenimiento
- The carrying cost of maintaining the warehouse included expenses for insurance, utilities, and upkeep.
- low carrying costs
Examples
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That is, they shoot themselves in the foot on a frequent basis by refusing to accept manageable short sale losses today and placing their bets on market recovery in the future sufficient to bring more money and make the bank more profit despite the maintenance and carrying costs, realtor and marketing expenses, and risk of vacancy and vandalism.
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It is the carrying cost of publication.
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- Enough to cut the carrying costs.
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And the carrying costs of a house that you no longer want to live in, or, worst case, no longer live in, can be substantial.
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The point is, you, as a renter, only need to pay a small fraction of the carrying costs for that car.
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The carrying cost on a trillion-dollar loan is $30 billion per year, which is small change in a $14 trillion economy.
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"The negative carrying costs of holding overpriced assets," he notes, "will continue to eat away not just at the stability of the financial sector but also at the profitability of manufacturing firms."
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Thanks to our exchange, I can record a massive profit on my books... to the tune of $99,900, or whatever sum is left over above and beyond the book-entry carrying cost for my fridge.
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Once it is established that there is literally nothing to be gained by printing money (like it is in a lot of banana republics and developing nations that live within their means), then holding cash for a short to medium period of time will have no carrying cost issue.
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This includes such factors as packaging, shipping, duties, inventory carrying costs, additional quality management, additional prototypes, and end-of-life obsolete inventory.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
The cost of keeping goods or assets in storage over time
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is largely compositional: a learner who knows 'carrying' (transporting/holding) and 'cost' (monetary amount) can infer it refers to costs related to carrying/holding an asset. However, the full, technical scope (storage, insurance, maintenance, and opportunity cost) and its specialized financial usage are not fully predictable to a B1 learner without domain exposure, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
The phrase carrying cost comes from the simple image of physically carrying goods: when a business keeps items in a store or warehouse it creates a cost for space, care and insurance. So carrying cost means the 'money needed to keep something in stock'.