average cost
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- noun
- Specialized
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coste medio
- According to our calculations, the average cost for a single meal at that restaurant is $25.
- low average cost
- weighted average cost
- total average cost
But you know, you never know these days what is the average cost of a midwife for one family.
- But you know, you never know these days what is the average cost of a midwife for one family.
Examples
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Across these two seasons, the average cost per picture jumped from $25,000 to $43,500, or a 75 percent increase.
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In-state tuition fees ranged from $773 to $3,936 per year, with an average cost of $1,902.
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Well, what is the average cost at that point?
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What is the average cost per lead on the Facebook?
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The average cost of a created species is $72 million.
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The average cost of college is, what, $20,000 a year?
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In 1997, the average cost of a Regulation A offering was $27,876.
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Considering the high average cost of replacing a teacher, high-quality induction programs are a bargain.
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In 1991, TT$497.50 or approximately US$117.00 represented the average cost per patient per day.
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Some debtors live in cities with above-average costs of living, while other debtors live in rural areas with below-average costs.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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The amount of money needed to make, store, and sell one item
How Expensive
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'average' (a representative number found by summing and dividing) applied to 'cost' yields the typical per-unit or mean cost, so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. This follows a standard noun-modifier pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so it should be immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Average cost comes from a simple image: imagine you buy several items at different prices, add all the costs together and divide by how many you bought to get the average 'price per item'. So, it means 'the total cost of all units bought or produced divided by the number of units'.