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overheads
/ ˈəʊəˌɛ /
plural noun
Also called: burden. fixed costs. indirect costs. oncost.business expenses, such as rent, that are not directly attributable to any department or product and can therefore be assigned only arbitrarily Compare prime cost
Example Sentences
Decades of smashing overheads in tennis would sweeten me to Noah like no candy apple could.
"Part of the challenge is how to scale the revolutionary technology efficiently – mechanisms that enable error correction without huge overheads in chip size, energy consumption and systems complexity are really welcome."
They also contend that private foundations do not have to follow the same rules in how they categorize spending, saying it is unfair to compare overheads between the two.
President Donald Trump's administration has announced it will slash billions of dollars from overheads in grants for biomedical research as a part of broader cost-saving measures, a move some scientists say will stifle scientific advancements.
Online shops are cheaper to operate and generally have fewer overheads.
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