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indirect cost

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indirect cost [‚in·də′rekt kȯst]
(industrial engineering)
A cost that is not readily indentifiable with or chargeable to a specific product or service.

indirect cost
On a building project, those costs that are attributed to overhead, as opposed to any specific task or component; for example, the cost of supervisory personnel in the site office.


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Second, are the indirect costs, such as overtime or temporary workers.
This includes the direct costs of treating diseases linked to lack of activity and the indirect costs caused through sickness absence.
While the average direct cost to employers of making redundancies can reach pounds 16,375, on top of this are hidden or indirect costs resulting from the effect of redundancy on survivor employees, such as higher labour turnover and a fall in staff productivity.
 
 
 
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