COGS
Noun
Meaning
COGS
Acronym of cost of goods sold.
Synonyms
Anagrams
Examples
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them.
My heroes are those people who want to be individuals but are being forced to be cogs again. In an Empire there are only cogs.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.