The contractor's claim for expense compensation should include cost claim and profit claim. It is profit claim not cost claim that brings contractor's payoff.

在承包商的费用索赔中，应包括成本索赔和利润索赔，成本索赔只能保证承包商不致亏损，而成功的利润索赔才能使承包商在保本的基础上盈利。

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Some financial experts claim there's a difference between cost savings and cost avoidance.

有一些专家声称在成本消减和成本避免方面存在差异。

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As a result, the cost of meeting a claim - particularly for older properties - has been rising steadily.

结果，要满足一次索赔，特别是较陈旧房屋的索赔费用逐步上涨。

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If they think they can recover the cost of your claim (perhaps helping your no-claims bonus) then they will do so, but if not then it's an accident, and that's why you have insurance.

BBC: Fergus Muirhead

After all the British government - first Labour, now the Coalition - have been fighting Abu Qatada's lawyers in the courts for 11 years at a cost, some claim, of more than a million pounds.

BBC: What to do about Qatada?

The claim would cost the employers 12%, when all the factors are funded.

BBC: Summer of discontent