overheads

Definition:
1. Regular costs that you have when you are running a business or an organization, such as rent, electricity, wages, etc.

Use 'overheads' in a sentence:

• 1. London was great, but the high overheads and the difficulties of travelling meant we had to move almost anywhere.
• 2. They have low overheads and levels of debt.
• 3. It's just about making a profit and it spends most of its income on overheads.
• 4. An all-day team meeting costs thousands of dollars, if we calculate the cost of all the people involved along with overheads.
• 5. Mr Gates wants the Pentagon to save 1-2% a year in overheads.
• 6. What new ideas do you have to keep overheads costs down in a company?
• 7. They are service providers who live on low overheads, exploit niches and rely on smart staff.
• 8. Not all virtualization technologies provide the same benefits or have the same cost overheads.
• 9. It's a good idea to review overheads regularly.
• 10. They rarely go bust because they have no overheads, and stop only when the owners are too old to carry on.
• 11. So our development time and overheads were getting worse and worse.
• 12. Falling sales and rising overheads have obliged the company to review each customer's credit limit.
• 13. These scores originally looked simply at overheads as a percentage of money raised.
• 14. As Numbers fall, the overheads become more burdensome and the pressure on ingredients greater.
• 15. This proved a poor guide, as low overheads may mean not thrift but ill-paid (and incompetent) staff.
• 16. I mean whether staff members are supportive in our overheads reduction project.
• 17. The leadership had streamlined the plant organization. As a result, the output doubled and the overheads fell drastically as well.
• 18. Take away the unnecessary costs of the retail channel - CD manufacturing, distribution, and retail overheads.
• 19. References also save memory (which reduces footprint and management overheads) and simplify your programming.
• 20. However, because of built-in limitations and overheads associated with mmap, it is only worth doing this in very restricted situations.
• 21. As soon as you hire your first employee, your overheads increase as you'll have to start paying him a salary.
• 22. Analysis results demonstrate that the scheme has good security performance and lower network overheads.
• 23. No overheads, extremely low operating costs.
• 24. What do you think the manager should do in overheads cutting project?
• 25. Which turns out to be a fairly good business, with overheads low enough to make a reasonable profit.
• 26. A: I'm sorry to hear that. Is it the economy, overheads or the high taxes?
• 27. And half of medical malpractice payments were gobbled up by lawyers and overheads.
• 28. Speak to the audience. NOT to the visual AIDS, such as flip charts or overheads.
• 29. The attractive point to companies wishing to use the system is the low selling overheads.
• 30. We are having to cut our costs to reduce overheads and remain competitive.
• 31. Private insurers spend 27 cents of every dollar on overheads.