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overheads
noun
Plural of overhead
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"overheads" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It generally refers to the fixed costs associated with running a business or other organization, but can also refer to any overhead expenses. For example: "The company had to take cost-cutting measures to reduce their overhead costs."
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"We could never do the things we are doing in London, because of the overheads," said Mark Wigan, a former photographer for ID magazine who runs the Museum of Club Culture art gallery.
If you are launching your own career as a consultant or a freelancer who will work from home then it will be a relatively straight-forward set-up, but even in this instance you will need to factor in some overheads (a new laptop, marketing materials, website), as well as a financial float to keep you going for a few months in the case of late payments (this will definitely happen).
Of course, I am aware that had I put this into a building society over the same period it would have generated £7,000-plus, but I do realise that you are experts in investment and that you obviously have huge overheads to pay, including the rebranding of the company from Norwich Union to Aviva.
The ALS has yet to respond to criticism of its high overheads and wage bills.
Sources said World Service overheads could not be slashed and smaller services would have to be closed to cut costs.
Spending on marketing is growing as a share of sales—along with other overheads it accounted for 27.2% of revenue in 1997, compared with 23.5% the year before.
American network carriers will still suffer from familiar ills: over-regulation, high overheads, inflexible unions, elderly fleets and constant attrition from low-cost point-to-point operators.
Several are merging to cut overheads and pool their research skills: Merck with Schering-Plough, Pfizer with Wyeth, Roche with Genentech.
In 2009 the World Bank calculated that the Department of Agrarian Reform's overheads, including the cost of legal disputes, amounted to about 38 pesos for every 100 pesos worth of redistributed land.
To compete, Japanese banks have to merge, cut overheads drastically and combine their computer systems.On paper, Sumitomo and Sakura look similar.
Rearing animals humanely can be too expensive to be profitable; growing crops organically is more viable, but even here volumes are often too low to pay overheads on processing, distribution and marketing.
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