operating expense

Questions about operating expense

What is another word for operating expense?

It depends which operating expense you mean. In the sense “the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes”, the synonyms are operating cost, overhead, budget items. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 operating expense?

WordNet records no antonym for operating expense. 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 operating expense 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 operating expense

• Full entry for operating expenseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for operating expenseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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