fixed costs

Questions about fixed costs

What does fixed costs mean?

fixed costs 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 costs?

Close synonyms include fixed charge, fixed cost. 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 costs a common word?

fixed costs 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.