actuals // noun [pl.]

(Accounting )

real costs, sales, etc. that have happened, rather than ones that were estimated or expected:

Compare the targets with the actuals in Table 3.

⇨ OUT-TURN (2) NOTE The word actuals is often used in financial reports.

• consumer behaviour
• consumer borrowing
• consumer boycott
• consumer brand
• consumer confidence
• consumer cooperative
• consumer credit
• consumer debt
• consumer demand
• consumer durables
• consumer electronics
• consumer equilibrium
• consumer finance
• consumer goods
• consumer group
• consumerism
• consumer loan
• consumer magazine
• consumer market
• consumer non-durables
• consumer panel
• consumer preference
• consumer price
• consumer price index
• consumer price inflation