oncost

English

Etymology

From on- +‎ cost, or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English uncost (“additional expense”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch oncost (“expenses, overhead”) (Modern Dutch onkost), equivalent to un- +‎ cost. Cognate with German Unkost (“expenses”).

Noun

oncost (plural oncosts)

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

Anagrams

• Coston, contos, nostoc