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Opportunity cost
An opportunty cost is not what you pay for something, but what you could have had if you do not pay for it. Any time you make a choice about spending money, or investing, you are choosing that over all of your other options. This is an opportunity cost. For example, if you spend all of your money, you are foregoing the potential gains of investing it.

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