at cost
English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (business) At the purchasing price; without any markup.
- Coordinate terms: at a loss, at a profit
- I will sell you the apples at cost.
- 1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families[1], Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., published 1980, →OCLC, page 9:
- It is no part of my purpose to make gain from this work. I had hoped to publish it in permanent form and distribute it among my friends as a present but it has grown to such proportions that that will not be practicable and I do hope that I maye be able to sell enough copies at about cost to materially assist in the publication.
Translations
[edit]at the original price
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