fixed cost - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
fixed cost (plural fixed costs)
- (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. [...]"