indirect cost
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of indirect cost
First recorded in 1905–10
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A 2025 study found that at more than 350 institutions funded by the National Institutes of Health, the average negotiated indirect cost rate was 58% and the effective actual overhead rate averaged 42%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Staff monitoring signals from a drone are an indirect cost that keeps some piloted X-planes relatively affordable.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“The cost of providing that same level of education to the remaining students in public school is this second indirect cost of vouchers.”
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2025
“No such power was conveyed by Congress here. Indeed, Congress has explicitly limited the NIH’s authority to modify indirect cost rates retroactively.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
It is eating up citizens the State has had the expense of educating, and very often the indirect cost of rearing.
From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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