cost-effective

English

Adjective

cost-effective (comparative more cost-effective, superlative most cost-effective)

1. Returning a benefit that justifies the initial investment; economical.
   • 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 33:

     "Secondly, we have to find more cost-effective ways of electrifying. And we've had a real breakthrough in the last couple of years in terms of bridge clearances and immunisation, meaning we've been able to take hundreds of millions of pounds off the cost of electrification.

Derived terms

• cost-effectiveness

Translations

return of benefit justifying an investment

• Danish: kosteffektiv, omkostningseffektiv
• Esperanto: profitiga
• Finnish: taloudellinen (fi), kustannustehokas
• French: rentable (fr)
• German: kosteneffizient
• Hungarian: költséghatékony (hu)
• Irish: cost-éifeachtúil
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kostnadseffektiv

  Nynorsk: kostnadseffektiv

• Polish: opłacalny (pl)
• Swedish: lönande (sv), kostnadseffektiv, lönsam (sv)