INDIRECT COSTS

  

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INDIRECT COSTS

Specialty Definition: INDIRECT COSTS

DomainDefinition

Business

Total costs of all labour, materials, facilities, equipment, and fees allocated to general administrative or overhead functions, including legal services, safety, and insurance ; costs that are not directly attributable to specific units of production, mainly fixed costs and common costs. Source: European Union. (references)
 Costs which can only be indirectly apportioned, possibly by means of a cost centre, to the production costs of goods or services. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: INDIRECT COSTS

Synonym: Overhead costs. (additional references)

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Crosswords: INDIRECT COSTS

Specialty definitions using "INDIRECT COSTS": labor costs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: INDIRECT COSTS

DomainTitle

Books

  • The cost of accidents within the port transport industry : an analysis and comparison of the direct and indirect costs of personal accidents and accidents involving plant and cargo at sample conventional general cargo, roll-on and container berths over on (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: INDIRECT COSTS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

It has been estimated that coronary heart disease costs the United States over $60 billion a year in direct and indirect costs. (references)

They also account for an estimated $16 billion in medical costs each year, while the indirect costs due to lost productivity and other factors are probably much greater. (references)

Although public costs for LTC are growing, a substantial proportion of the direct costs for this care still are paid "out of pocket," and by far the largest share of the indirect costs of ADRD are borne by families. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: INDIRECT COSTS

Language Translations for "INDIRECT COSTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

indirekte omkostninger (burden, business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, indirect cost, manufacturing overheads, overhead, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead costs, overhead expenses, overheads), kapacitetsomkostninger (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), generalomkostninger (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, oncost, overhead, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead costs, overhead expenses, overheads), fællesomkostninger (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), fælles omkostninger (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), driftsomkostninger (business expenses, farm expenditures expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, operating charges, operating costs, operating expenses, operational costs, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

indirecte kosten (burden, business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, indirect cost, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), zakenonkosten (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), overheadkosten (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), gemeenschappelijke kosten (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yleiskustannus (burden, business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), välillinen kustannus (burden, overheads). (various references)

   

French

  

frais indirects, frais généraux, dépenses indirectes. (various references)

   

German

  

Sekundärkosten (burden, overheads), Geschaeftsunkosten (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), Gemeinkosten (overhead costs, overhead expenses, overheads), allgemeine Kosten (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, oncost, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έμμεσα έξοδα (expenses). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spese generali (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), costi indiretti (burden, business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), costi generali (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), costi fissi (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, oncost, one-time costs, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indirectay ostscay

   

Portuguese

  

gastos indirectos (burden, overheads), gastos gerais (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), custos totais (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), custos indirectos (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), custos gerais (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gastos generales (oncost, overhead, overheads), gastos fijos (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), costes indirectos (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

indirekta kostnader (burden, overheads). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: INDIRECT COSTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: concretists, constricted, disconcerts, discretions, trisections.

-3 letters: concretist, constricts, cornetists, detritions, dicentrics, directions, disconcert, discretion, disorients, dissection, distincter, eroticists, interdicts, tricotines, trisection.

-4 letters: centrists, centroids, cistronic, codirects, coincides, concisest, considers, consisted, constrict, cornetist, cricetids, decisions, derisions, detrition, dicentric, direction, dirtiness, disinters, disorient, dissector, districts, doctrines, dottiness, eroticist, incrossed, indicters, indictors, interdict, ironsides, occidents, recisions.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+4 letters: contradictoriness, deconstructionist.

 

+5 letters: deconstructionists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: INDIRECT COSTS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 44 49 52 45 43 54      43 4F 53 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01010010 01000101 01000011 01010100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010011 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#68 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0044 0049 0052 0045 0043 0054      0043 004F 0053 0054 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

434838435239375423749535453

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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