overheads

[ˈoʊvərhedz]

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.