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overheads

noun

plural of overhead

as in expenses

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Lighter planes consume less jet fuel, which directly cuts carbon emissions and operating expenses for commercial airlines.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
For a small business, those gaps can affect when revenue is available for payroll, inventory, suppliers, contractors, and other expenses.

— Karen Koehler, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of expenses

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Mitigation means sailing between Charybdis and Scylla – where one path, no mitigation, will hurt everyone and the other, aggressive mitigation, would require some to pay the tremendous costs to save everyone else.

— Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Concerns about military readiness, workforce shortages, rising health care costs, affordability, and America’s ability to compete in an increasingly challenging world seem to play on a loop without any sign of progress.

— Stanley McChrystal, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of costs

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As part of that proposal, which has not been previously reported, the Ryans agreed to cover half of the eight-figure expenditures that had been incurred to that point to walk away.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Next week will bring the release of the personal consumption expenditures price index for August.

— Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of expenditures

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The district plans to spend $216 million on capital outlays, up from $132 million, including the ongoing Unite U-46 construction projects and the purchase of new buses.

— Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
The Lawrence deal changed the Bengals’ math this offseason, and de facto general manager Duke Tobin spoke before training camp about the future outlays and challenges in completing those deals.

— Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of outlays

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The funding will come from federal disbursements sent to the county under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a program geared towards post-COVID relief.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026
This is done to comply with the SSI payment schedule, which sets disbursements for the first day of each month and moves them earlier when that date falls on a holiday.

— Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of disbursements

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