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📖What it means
The principle that the system's running cost is kept to the minimum that still satisfies its objectives and principles. It is a constitutional value, not a budget: budgets are the operational instrument written beneath it.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Budget cap
Cost minimisation is the standing value; a cap is one operational limit written to serve it.
Not: Cost (delegate duty)
The principle binds the system; the duty names the delegate as the one accountable for it.
🗣️Also called
cost disciplinefrugality principle