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at cost

  1. (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.

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