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Answer for the clue "Company's operating costs ", 8 letters:
overhead

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Word definitions for overhead in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. above your head; in the sky; "planes were flying overhead" above the head; over the head; "bring the legs together overhead"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer science , overhead is any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other resources that are required to attain a particular goal. It is a special case of engineering overhead .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 located above, especially over the head 2 (context soccer English) kicked over one's own head adv. above one's head; in the sky. n. 1 (context uncountable business accounting English) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods ...

Usage examples of overhead.

Through the ventilator grilles she could clearly hear the sounds of thumping and tapping and slithering of other-species ambulatory appendages overhead, and the indescribable babbie of growling, hissing, gobbling, and cheeping conversation that accompanied it.

For some little time the whole building was a blinding crimson mass, the towers continued to spout thick columns of rockets aloft, and overhead the sky was radiant with arrowy bolts which clove their way to the zenith, paused, curved gracefully downward, then burst into brilliant fountain-sprays of richly colored sparks.

The clutter of the overhead with pipes and cables and ducts was cleared out, leaving a circular continuous display screen angling between the bulkheads and the overhead, and the starboard row of consoles that had been the attack center was gone, replaced by five cubicles.

Overhead hung an ordinary tell-tale compass, and compactly placed on other parts of the wall were barometers, thermometers, barographs, and, in fact, practically every instrument that the most exacting of aeronauts or Space-explorers could have asked for.

From a window opening upon a balcony overhead came the clear notes of a barytone voice enunciating the oldfashioned words of an English ballad, the refrain of which expressed hopeless separation.

Feather stepped to the left, intending to seek a way around the ravine, when a chilling sound wafted down from overhead, the sound of deep, guttural laughter, echoing from wall to wall, mocking him, making him realize the bearish figures had just been toying with him.

Carefully, he balanced sun overhead through the billowing clouds, shot the horizon with the half-mirror, then did a few calculations.

The trees at Tse Bonito Park were yellow, the roadsides were streaked with the purple of the last surviving October asters, and overhead the sky was the dark, blank blue.

Overhead the hands had already bowsed the swinging yard to the shrouds and were running a cable to the shattered end to act as a brace.

The great prison spread out in a flat valley below them, brilliantly illuminated by the yellow glare of overhead lights, as surreal an industrial confection as a giant oil refinery.

Lo Manto opened it and slowly stepped inside, the hall filtered in darkness, an overhead twenty-five-watt bulb close to the rear exit the only visible light.

Lo Manto tilted his head against the overhead sun and glanced over at Jennifer.

Lo Manto said, following Blind Moe into his office, watching as the old man clicked on an overhead light as he moved through a large space cluttered with cabinets, old photos resting against the sides of gray walls, bookshelves filled with jazz and blues LPs, all lined up in alphabetical order.

Reacting to the authority in his voice, Gustav and Marga shot at the tanks and pipes overhead and on all sides, while Warren threw more grenades.

And, mingled with the shades of twilight, lay On the brown massy woods--and in the east The broad and burning moon lingeringly rose Between the black trunks of the crowded trees, While the faint stars were gathering overhead.