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- noun economics The cost of an opportunity
forgone (and the loss of thebenefits that could be received from that opportunity); the mostvaluable forgone alternative.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cost in terms of foregoing alternatives
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