Usually means: Value of the next best alternative.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word opportunity cost:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. opportunity cost: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. opportunity cost: Merriam-Webster
  3. opportunity cost: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. opportunity cost: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opportunity cost: Vocabulary.com
  6. opportunity-cost: Wordnik
  7. opportunity cost: Wiktionary
  8. opportunity cost: Dictionary.com
  9. Opportunity Cost, Opportunity cost: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. opportunity cost: Rhymezone
  11. opportunity cost: FreeDictionary.org
  12. opportunity cost: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. opportunity cost: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. opportunity cost: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. OPPORTUNITY COST: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Opportunity Cost: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  7. Opportunity cost: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  8. Opportunity cost: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  9. Opportunity Cost: Management Dictionary
  10. Opportunity Cost: Inflation Glossary
  11. Opportunity Cost: Investopedia
  12. Opportunity Cost: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  13. opportunity cost: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  15. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Opportunity Cost: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. opportunity cost: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opportunity cost: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opportunity cost: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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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.

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