Meanings of variable cost in English

Not only fixed costs but variable cost, he said.

Under one, banks would compute the average variable cost of authorizing, clearing and settling a transaction.

So I need variable cost, and I only want to pay for what I use, Kubacki said.

We defined "favorable performance" as groups with lower direct variable cost, lower length of stay, and lower 30-day readmissions.

By tracking the variable cost of energy charged by utilities, a manufacturer could adjust the pace of factory production to achieve savings.

Other business strengths include, in our view, the company's satisfactory and resilient profitability, benefitting from a highly variable cost structure and low capital intensity.

This is partly thanks to the group's variable cost base, which in our view enables Brenntag to show resilient operating performance to market fluctuations.

The executives said Caterpillar was on track for a $2 billion of period and variable cost reduction for the full year of 2016.

Fixed and variable costs were determined for surgery and other inpatient treatment.

The increase in PSI score on the first day was associated with a global increase in variable costs.

Plus, in a business with high fixed costs and low variable costs, what matters is that enough people pay.

The degree to which WPP weathered the last downturn highlights the level of variable costs in the cost base.

In Chad in general, as in other West African countries, fixed costs outweigh variable costs at every level of intervention.

Reducing variable costs may help an employer weather a short-term downturn, providing flexibility to quickly ramp up when demand picks up.

In the long term, mean profit is expected to be close to zero, and all costs are assumed to be variable costs.

Accenture's gross margins slipped in the first quarter, which the company said was due to variable costs such as hiring and training.