Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fixed costs
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alarmingly, many crops are not generating enough return to justify this spend on fixed costs.
▪ Corporation tax, by increasing the fixed costs, in effect raises the entry barriers to the industry.
▪ Defining as the elasticity of substitution in fixed costs, and as the shares in fixed costs.
▪ Deterioration of market conditions and higher fixed costs were blamed for the decline.
▪ If fixed costs are shared between products a method of allocating and apportioning these costs to individual products must be introduced.
▪ Many Southeastern utilities are hamstrung by high fixed costs.
▪ On the other hand, if the firm falls short of covering its fixed costs, a loss will be incurred.
Wiktionary
fixed costs
n. (plural of fixed cost English)
WordNet
fixed costs
n. a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.) [syn: fixed charge, fixed cost]
Usage examples of "fixed costs".
During April, I discussed this situation with CMV since our fixed costs for maintaining these units are so high.
Even if they ran the next Congo expedition slambam, in and out in less than fifteen days, their fixed costs would still exceed three hundred thousand dollars.
Thus it must be efficiently productive, so that the fixed costs of operation are overcome and the unit cost of manufacturing is lower than the market price of the product offered.