cost consciousness

基本解释

Build cost-consciousness and reduce waste to ensure the optimum use of all bag-making production resources.
建立良好成本意识，降低生产废品率，确保制袋部门生产资源的合理运用；
Governmental agency administrative personnel non-cost consciousness, creates the administrative expense to increase;
当局机关行政人员无本钱认识，形成行政开支增大；
Seeking the economic increase in a one-sided way, the lack of cost consciousness and scientific government performance evaluation system are the main reasons of high administration cost.
我国当前的政府绩效评估指标体系具有一定缺陷，我们有必要建立科学的政府绩效评估指标体系。

Instead, critics worry that greater cost-consciousness will deter people, particularly poor people, from essential preventive medical care, a trend that could even raise long-term costs.
ECONOMIST: America's health-care crisis: Desperate measures The