overheads
noun /ˈəʊvəhedz/
/ˈəʊvərhedz/
[plural] (especially British English) (also overhead [uncountable] especially in North American English)
- regular costs that you have when you are running a business or an organization, such as rent, electricity, wages, etc.
经费；营运费用；经常性开支 Synonyms costscosts- spending
- expenditure
- expenses
- overheads
- outlay
- costs the total amount of money that needs to be spent by a business:
- labour/production costs
人工／生产成本 - rising costs
正在上涨的成本
- labour/production costs
- spending the amount of money that is spent, especially by a government or an organization:
- public spending
公共开支 - More spending on health was promised.
已承诺增加医疗开支。
- public spending
- expenditure (rather formal) an amount of money spent by a government, an organization or a person:
指政府、机构或个人的开支、支出、花费： - expenditure on education
教育支出
- expenditure on education
- expenses money that has to be spent by a person or an organization; money that you spend while you are working that your employer will pay back to you later:
- legal expenses
律师费 - travel expenses
差旅费
- legal expenses
- overhead(s) the regular costs of running a business or an organization, such as rent, electricity and wages:
- High overheads mean small profit margins.
经费开销大意味着利润低。
- High overheads mean small profit margins.
- outlay the money that you have to spend in order to start a new business or project, or in order to save yourself money or time later:
- The best equipment is costly but is well worth the outlay.
最好的设备花费大，但这种开支很值得。
- The best equipment is costly but is well worth the outlay.
- spending/expenditure/outlay on something
- high/low costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads
- total costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads/outlay
- capital costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/outlay
- household costs/spending/expenditure/expenses
- government/public/education/health costs/spending/expenditure
- to increase/reduce costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads/the outlay
- High overheads mean small profit margins.
经费开销大意味着利润低。