(accounting) An excess of actual cost over budget.

(management, accounting) An expense one has avoided incurring.

(Britain, finance) The selling cost or distribution cost of issuing new securities.

(Incoterm) A scheme whereby the seller pays for transportation to the port of loading, cost and freight, and the buyer pays for the insurance and the rest of the transportation

The act of reducing one's spending.

Part of an oilfield operator's entitlement to revenue as compensation for incurred production costs as stated in a production sharing agreement.

The cost to acquire a unit of a good or service for a specific quantity that is purchased.

(idiomatic) To be a huge expense.

(finance) The unused part of the economic benefit of an expenditure that remains as an asset for future use

(finance) The amount paid by a trader for goods purchased. / (finance) The cost to a manufacturer of producing an item, before any profit is taken.