fixed cost

Questions about fixed cost

What does fixed cost mean?

fixed cost means "a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)".

What is another word for fixed cost?

Close synonyms include fixed charge, fixed costs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fixed cost a common word?

fixed cost is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.