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To overhead
noun
The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
Exact(60)
A lot of it goes to overhead.
The car was lined up parallel to overhead fluorescent lights.
Restaurants know that Americans love bargains, and providing huge portions doesn't add substantially to overhead.
But most of that goes to overhead and other costs because the volume is low.
Simulation of direct lightning strokes to overhead line towers requires accurate modeling of tower grounding systems.
They give upright displays to overhead Great Egrets (Ardea alba) (Kushlan et al. 1982).
More than two-thirds of the total goes to overhead and payroll.
Move arm through an arc along the wall from hip level to overhead.
Model calculations indicate that moisture derived from continental evaporation contributes 13% to overhead vapor load.
The railroad will consider any payments received that are greater than its variable costs as a contribution to overhead.
For our measured applications, the sensitivity to overhead and various bandwidths is much stronger than sensitivity to latency.
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