OVERHEAD

Overhead

In business, overhead or overhead expense refers to an ongoing expense of operating a business; it is also known as an "operating expense". Examples include rent, gas, electricity, and wages. The term overhead is usually used when grouping expenses that are necessary to the continued functioning of the business but cannot be immediately associated with the products or services being offered . Closely related accounting concepts are fixed costs and variable costs as well as indirect costs and direct costs.

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overhead

Noun

  1. The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
  2. The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
  3. Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to the progress or outcome of the project or activity.
  4. Wasted money.
  5. A smash.
  6. The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel
  7. The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
  8. data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system and is not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
    Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within operating system.
  9. An overhead throw.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. An overhead projector.
  2. A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

Adjective

  1. located above, especially over the head
    Place your luggage in the overhead bins.
  2. kicked over one's own head

Adverb

  1. above one's head;in the sky
    Birds flying overhead.


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