cost-effectiveness

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Etymology edit

cost-effective +‎ -ness

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cost-effectiveness (usually uncountable, plural cost-effectivenesses)

  1. The property of being cost-effective.
    • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177:
      Life is cheap, never forget it. Corporations make marketing decisions by weighing the cost of being sued for your death against the cost of making the product safer. Your life is a factor in cost-effectiveness. So when you talk about murder, don't confine your discussion to individuals.
    • 2019 November 6, Paul Stephen, “Cowden: a crash radio could have prevented”, in Rail, page 73:
      BR had been called upon to install ATP across the entire network in the aftermath of the Clapham Junction rail crash that resulted in 35 deaths in December 1988 [...]. But progress had stalled due to the cost-effectiveness of the systems that were in development.

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