oncost

  1. Noun.  Additional costs; extra expenses.
  2. Noun.  (finance) Overhead (expense).
  3. Noun.  (context, coal-mining) The cost of upkeep, making and maintaining shafts, roads, pumping, etc.
  4. Noun.  (context, UK) The indirect expenditure incurred for the purpose of increasing the productive power of organised labour.

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