noun
overhead
ongoing operational costs not directly tied to producing a specific product
In a sentence
Six example sentences with overhead, each labelled with its topic.
Rent, insurance, and the front desk salary are overhead, and they are due whether or not a single order ships.
Business
A food truck survives on thin margins because its overhead is a generator and a permit, not a dining room.
Cooking
Index funds charge little because their overhead is small, with no analysts to pay and almost no trading to fund.
Finance
The founders kept overhead close to zero, working from a borrowed desk and paying for nothing but the servers.
Startups
The minor-league team's overhead is mostly bus rental and gym time, so a single bad month of ticket sales hurts.
Basketball
The band's overhead runs to a van, insurance, and rehearsal rent, all due whether or not a show sells out.
Music
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Found in these word lists
Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Business Word List (part 1)
- Computer Science Word List
Each source is a published word list that contains overhead. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.