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What is the economic term for what you lose when using resources for something else?
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What is the economic term for what you lose when using resources for something else?

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The economic term for this is "opportunity cost".

Opportunity cost is the cost of the options that one is not choosing. This means that if one has to choose between A and B, opportunity cost is the cost of "giving up B" when one chooses A.


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