opportunity cost

The individual opportunity cost of time is not often considered.

Opportunity cost is the value of the next best thing after making a decision.

The opportunity cost of many green ideas is simply too high.

The opportunity cost of making one choice over another must also be considered.

"You have to look at the opportunity cost of being down," he said.

But this is no longer society's opportunity cost of these resources in the film industry.

The opportunity cost can relate to both time and money.

Thinking about the opportunity cost of the time and money spent on a degree might well help them to focus.

For those people, there is an "opportunity cost" of doing business the old way.

In other words, opportunity cost is how much leisure time we give up to work.

At the end of the day, for the consumers, it's about opportunity cost.

"Schools really need to look carefully at the opportunity costs," she said.

There is an opportunity cost to playing the merger game.

Imagine living your life under the shadow of opportunity cost.

"There's very little opportunity costs for them to get involved in this," he said.

Care giving demands a lot out of an individual, and as a result there is a high opportunity cost.

That is the private opportunity cost of the funds tied up in the project.

The gains had been less than the opportunity costs of the resources used.

"People will find it more worthwhile to do when the opportunity cost of their time is less," he said.

These potential economic costs can be offset by the opportunity cost of more time for family and education.

On the other hand, military spending represents serious opportunity costs.

"There's an opportunity cost of spending time on line," he added.

But for the first time it seems to carry a hefty opportunity cost.

It's the opportunity cost of the time you spend on the websites.

The stories of these women may not surprise people who expect that taking a break will have opportunity costs.