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Economic Definition of explicit opportunity cost. Defined.

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Term explicit opportunity cost Definition: An opportunity cost that involves a money payment and usually a market transaction. This should be contrasted with implicit cost that does NOT involve a money payment or a market transaction. Explicit cost is also termed out-of-pocket or accounting cost.

 

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