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fixed cost (plural fixed costs)

  1. (accounting, chiefly in the plural) A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead.
    Coordinate term: variable cost

    Rent is a fixed cost.

    Our fixed costs are too high.

    • 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:

      "Railways have to bear the very high fixed costs associated with the provision and maintenance of a specialised route system for their own exclusive use. [...]"