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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The company said that cash fixed costs were stable compared with the previous year and its efforts to reduce costs of goods sold are paying off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
“Once you have that thing up and running, you need it to be loaded,” Shih said, given the high fixed costs of building a fabrication plant and fitting it with chip-making equipment.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
"The transition replaces variable costs with fixed costs: if a crisis hits and I have fewer orders, the loan burden remains," Gahl said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
The line representing fixed costs was flat, and the one representing variable costs angled upward.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
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