fixed costs
Britishplural noun
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another name for overheads
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costs that do not vary with output
Example Sentences
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Yet schools have many fixed costs, such as maintaining, repairing, heating and cooling school buildings, operating cafeterias and managing many administrative functions that cannot easily be scaled down when enrollment declines inevitably reduce funding.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Lower sales volumes have made fixed costs harder to spread out, while U.S. tariffs on aluminum cans further squeezed margins, the company said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Firms that continue to rely on hourly billing risk eroding their margins, because AI creates an environment with low variable costs and high fixed costs, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Pawsey said his fixed costs had risen between 25% and 35%, and he could not see a solution to the issues farmers faced aside from an increase to food prices.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Shortly after sunrise, Armpit opened his book and tried to understand the difference between fixed costs and variable costs.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
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