at cost

at cost

1. (business) At the purchasing price; without any markup.

   Coordinate terms: at a loss, at a profit

   I will sell you the apples at cost.

   • 1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families‎, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., published 1980, →OCLC, page 9:

     It is no part of my purpose to make gain from this work. I had hoped to publish it in permanent form and distribute it among my friends as a present but it has grown to such proportions that that will not be practicable and I do hope that I maye be able to sell enough copies at about cost to materially assist in the publication.

• come at a cost

• Ascott, cottas