Sentence examples for sunk costs from inspiring English sources

They are what businesspeople call sunk costs.

The losses would be real but, as Mr Setser says, they are also "sunk costs".

They have to talk about sunk costs and whether ownership's willing to move on".

First, Rusia Petroleum's claim is weakened by the relatively low level of its sunk costs.

But in the real world sunk costs are hard to ignore.

Car makers have enormous sunk costs in plants, processes and skills that are geared around steel.

This kind of activity brings sunk costs, which are invariably irrecoverable.

To a large extent, the investments that have already been made in these fields are sunk costs.

The plan was to recoup sunk costs as quickly as possible, but the break-even point was extremely high.

That is important not only because carmakers are notoriously risk-averse (given the huge sunk costs of existing capital stock).

General managers and other team executives are wedded to sunk costs they paid but will never recover.