The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overhead charges \O`ver*head" char"ges\, Overhead expenses \O`ver*head" expenses\, etc. (Accounting) Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed charges, establishment charges, or (in a manufacturing business) administration charges, selling charges, and distribution charges, etc.
Usage examples of "overhead expenses".
Here the master has used the cost of production as the basis for figuring the distribution cost the defendants have put in under overhead expenses they've tried to spread over their other pictures and the court holds for the master, same thing here where they've disallowed a five million dollar studio overhead item for stories or screenplays they bought that were failures or weren't made at all I, just let me get up for a minute?
They had rent coming up in less than a month, as well as other overhead expenses.
It eases certain overhead expenses for the hotel operation, and it improves the hotel business.
All you have to do is come out with about a thirty-three hundred net on each apartrttent on the average after all construction expanses, overhead expenses, and sales commissions, and you make one million dollars, and you are a btuiden millionaire before taxes.
Put in the wages of yourself at fifteen hundred and a pilot at twelve hundred, and a ground engineer at eight hundred, and there's three thousand five hundred pounds added to your overhead expenses right away.
By six he was already in his office dictating consult letters and writing checks for various overhead expenses.