least cost

基本解释

And since the government recently cut subsidies to commercial solar farms, the policy now focuses on the least cost-effective examples of an inefficient technology.
此外，由于政府最近消减了对商业性太阳能发电厂的补贴，当前政策注重于推广成本最小化的低效技术。
Therefore, services with the greatest business value, least business cost, and least cost of replacement are the best candidates for incorporation as a service into the initiative.
因此，业务价值最大、业务成本最小且替换成本最小的服务是作为服务包含到活动中的最佳候选项。
If the inner table does not have an index, the database server will compare the cost of building an index on the table to the cost of a sequential scan, and will choose the one with the least cost.
如果内部表没有索引，那么数据库服务器就会将在表上构建索引的成本与连续扫描的成本进行比较，然后选择成本最低的那一种方法。

Experts at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated that the action cost Egypt's economy at least ninety million dollars.
So the problem here, roughly, is given, a number of cities, and say the cost of traveling from city to city by airplane, what's the least cost round trip that you can find?
基本上就是一个这样的问题,你被告知了一些城市,以及在城市之间坐飞机旅行的花费,那一条是你们能找到最短往返路径？
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If he hadn't run, Beatrice would still have won, but it would still have cost him the $.20 of unhappiness at Beatrice winning, but at least he would have saved himself the C of running.
如果他不参选,比阿特丽斯还是会获胜,这同样会给他带来,20美分的,比阿特丽斯获胜的失落感,但至少他节约了参选要支付的C
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Finally, the gasoline tax incurs the least cost because it elicits responses on several fronts.
FORBES: A Gas Tax Is Much, Much, More Efficient Than The CAFE Standards So Why Have We The CAFE Standards?