implicit cost

  

Definition

The costs associated with an action's tradeoff. It is related to explicit costs, which represent the actual costs of an activity, and represents a cost that is not recorded but instead implied. For example, an employee could take a vacation and travel. The explicit costs would include travel expenses, the cost of a hotel room, and costs related to entertainment. The implicit costs relate to the tradeoff, namely the wages that the employee could have earned if the vacation was not taken.

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