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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=economics">economics</a>, an <b>implicit cost</b>, also called an <b>imputed cost</b>, <b>implied cost</b>, or <b>notional cost</b>, is the <a href="page.php?w=opportunity_cost">opportunity cost</a> equal to what a firm must give up in order to use a <a href="page.php?w=factor_of_production">factor of production</a> for which it already owns and thus does not pay rent. It is the opposite of an <a href="page.php?w=explicit_cost">explicit cost</a>, which is borne directly. In other words, an implicit cost is any cost that</p><p>
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