estimate of cost

基本解释

It was too big for the site; there was not enough seating; and, most notably, there was no estimate of cost.
但对那个场地来说，他的设计过于庞大，座席却不够多。最明显的是，成本核算都没有。
The signing of the contract in Tehran, saw officials from the Iranian Oil Ministry, give an initial estimate of cost at about 2 billion US dollars.
从伊朗石油部官员们那里了解到，在德黑兰签署的此合同来看，成本的初步预算大约在二十亿美圆左右。
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For the estimate of cost efficiency which measures the capability of cost control, it introduces the DFA (distribution free approach) to measure it.
对反映银行投入成本控制有效性的成本效率的测量，本文运用参数方法中的DFA方法进行分析。

"The bank will estimate its costs based on its fixed costs, variable costs, the cost of their employees, the rent and so on and so forth.
EU officials estimate the bacterial outbreak has cost farmers millions of dollars.
Also,the president mentioned Friday's U.S.Treasury Department announcement that the bailout of some U.S.industries will likely cost less than $90 billion, down from the original estimate of $500 billion.

So 4.0% is very conservative as an estimate of borrowing cost for small business.
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