after-cost
English
Noun
after-cost (plural after-costs)
- Alternative form of aftercost
- 2010, Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics, →ISBN, page 73:
- But originality in war does, and slave- owning nations, having time to think, are likely to be more shrewd in policy, and more crafty in strategy. No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
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