indirect cost

noun

1. a business cost that is not directly accountable to a particular function or product; a fixed cost, as a land tax or the like.

Word History and Origins

Origin of indirect cost¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

This is true, but it indicates the other, more indirect cost of Edmund.

From The Daily Beast

The indirect cost to society of the wretchedness and crime that result from intemperance is vastly greater.

From Project Gutenberg

It is eating up citizens the State has had the expense of educating, and very often the indirect cost of rearing.

From Project Gutenberg