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cost efficiency

 
 
noun

Definition

[C] a way of saving money, or of spending less money: They pinpointed the departments in which cost efficiencies were possible.
(Definition of cost efficiency noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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