fixed costs

Questions about fixed costs

What is another word for fixed costs?

It depends which fixed costs you mean. In the sense “a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)”, the synonyms are fixed charge, fixed cost. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of fixed costs?

WordNet records no antonym for fixed costs. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for fixed costs come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of fixed costs

• Full entry for fixed costsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fixed costsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.