compiling costs

基本解释

Compiling a dictionary costs much time and labor.
编辑字典很费时间和精力。
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Compiling a dictionary costs much time and patience.
编纂词典要用很多的时间，要有极大的耐心。
The methodology used for compiling these lists don't always reflect true living costs.
编制这些名单所用的方法并不总是真实地反映生活成本。

EIU's index measures the relative costs of doing business in 27 economies by compiling statistics relating to wages, costs for expatriate staff, air travel and subsistence, corporation taxes, perceived corruption levels, office and industrial rents, and road transport.
ECONOMIST: BUSINESS COSTS
You would have done better by compiling a survey of costs and explaining what it takes to bring them down.
ECONOMIST: Developing mobility
Instead, as a result of faulty Medicaid data, medical providers bore the disruption and costs that come from compiling the records demanded, lived with the stress and uncertainty of an intrusive government audit, and confronted the fear that an unjustified audit could result in an even more unjustified law enforcement referral.
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