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cogs

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I mean, it's certainly better than warehouse employees, but devs are treated as highly disposable cogs.

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Quick take

Acronym of cost of goods sold. [(finance, accounting) The expense of acquiring the inventory that is sold during a given accounting period.]

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noun

Acronym of cost of goods sold. [(finance, accounting) The expense of acquiring the inventory that is sold during a given accounting period.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cogs.

noun

Acronym of cost of goods sold. [(finance, accounting) The expense of acquiring the inventory that is sold during a given accounting period.]

Example sentences

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I mean, it's certainly better than warehouse employees, but devs are treated as highly disposable cogs.

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Now it replaces the cogs it considers defective (flesh) with ones which cannot fail it (silicon).

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It would work, if management didn't treat programmers as a replaceable cogs in a wheel.

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So we're going to have to port this site over to Cobol on Cogs before that can happen.

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Oh the horror, the employees aren't replaceable meat cogs in some giant machine.

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Because people aren't cogs and they all function at different levels of productivity.

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Ultimately I'm just as interested in building stuff than just merely playing with cogs & gears.

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Most employees at large companies are just cogs in a machine.

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It's an expense/cogs line item just like your hosting bill.

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Capitalism systematically makes humans into cogs in a machine.

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We're grunts, and we're meant to be interchangeable cogs-- that's why they'd rather employ a dozen mediocre java developers than one brilliant erlangist.

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Companies want to treat programmers as replaceable cogs.

Quote examples

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There will always be folks eager to be employed as cogs or who try to attain "thought leader" status.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use cogs in a sentence?

I mean, it's certainly better than warehouse employees, but devs are treated as highly disposable cogs.

What does cogs mean?

Acronym of cost of goods sold. [(finance, accounting) The expense of acquiring the inventory that is sold during a given accounting period.]

What part of speech is cogs?

cogs is commonly used as noun.