overhead
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈoʊvərˌhɛd/
- Specialized
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gastos generales
- After all, the overhead is low.
- overhead costs
- overhead expenses
- administrative overhead
That's with no employees, no overhead cost, no expenses, no advertising.
- That's with no employees, no overhead cost, no expenses, no advertising.
- But I think their overheads are high.
- You know, like with your tax business, it's like you got your employee overhead and it's not like this crazy thing.
- My father said to me from the time I was very young, his line is keep overhead low at all costs.
- But anyway, this client taught me a really powerful lesson, minimize your overhead and minimize your employee costs.
- How can we sell our products or services over the phone without a massive overhead?
- And the reason for that, it takes very little upfront cash is low overhead.
- We had no overhead, but it felt small.
- One, if it changes hands once, that's too much overhead.
- They had spent an awful lot of money and overhead and things like that, but really nice.
- Much better privacy at a pretty small cost in overhead.
- You free itself from all of this useless overhead.
- And to avoid the criticisms that the MSPCC had, which was the the overheads were high.
- Is part of the endurance tied to that, like just not having the overhead of it all.
Examples
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Distinguishing between a want and a need is key to controlling overhead expenses.
Academic text (2011) -
But I think their overheads are high.
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So we will try to stay as fixed as possible on the overhead side of cost.
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My father said to me from the time I was very young, his line is keep overhead low at all costs.
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Well, yeah, I like to keep the overhead low.
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But to keep overhead low, it's possible to do it yourself for much less.
Academic text (2011) -
Enough to cover overhead and payroll.
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That means your overhead is minimal, as is your client list.
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After several months in business, our overhead is averaging a miserly seventeen hundred dollars.
Fiction book (1995) -
To improve profitability, the company decided to cut unnecessary overhead expenses like excessive office supplies.
Synonyms
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2.7
An amount of money spent for work or business
12
3.5
Money spent to run and maintain a business or building, like utilities and insurance
10
3.0
A cost you pay while running a business, often needed for work
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4.7
A regular cost for running a business, for example rent or electricity
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3.7
A regular business cost that does not change when production changes, like rent and insurance
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
3
3.2
A machine that shines light through clear plastic sheets to show images on a screen
- Specialized
Time a computer or machine takes to get ready before it runs a command
- Specialized
Time a device takes to get ready before it starts a command
- Specialized
Space on a disk used to store information the computer needs, not your files
- Specialized
A gym exercise that lifts a weight from the shoulder to above the head until the arms are straight
How Expensive
- Specialized
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4.9
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2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overhead comes from the parts over- and head, meaning 'above the head', and people began to use it for things that sit 'on top' of the main work. So business 'overhead' means the regular running costs, like rent and utilities, that sit on top of producing goods or services.