oncost

Meaning

Noun

• Additional costs; extra expenses.
• Overhead (expense)
• The cost of upkeep, making and maintaining shafts, roads, pumping, etc.
• The indirect expenditure incurred for the purpose of increasing the productive power of organised labour.

Origin

• From on- + cost, or from Middle English uncost, from Middle Dutch oncost (Modern Dutch onkost), equivalent to un- + cost. Cognate with German Unkost.