process costing: Meaning and Definition of

proc'ess cost"ing

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— Accounting. Accounting.
  1. a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process. Cf.
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