Usually means: Value of the next best alternative.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word opportunity costs:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. opportunity costs: Merriam-Webster
  2. opportunity costs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. opportunity costs: Vocabulary.com
  4. opportunity costs: Wiktionary
  5. Opportunity costs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Opportunity costs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. opportunity costs: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Opportunity Costs: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms
  4. Opportunity costs: bizterms.net
  5. Opportunity costs: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Opportunity costs: Harvey Financial
  7. Opportunity costs: Financial dictionary
  8. Opportunity costs: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Opportunity costs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Opportunity costs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See opportunity_cost as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (opportunity cost)

noun:  (economics) The cost of an opportunity forgone (and the loss of the benefits that could be received from that opportunity); the most valuable forgone alternative.
▸ Also see opportunity_cost


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