A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
Used in a Sentence
overheads
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for overheads.
Editorial note
Note that this £240 billion will have the overheads of running the welfare system built into it too.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of overheads gathered in one view.
(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
(transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for overheads.
noun
A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
noun
(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
noun
(transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
noun
(countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
Example sentences
Note that this £240 billion will have the overheads of running the welfare system built into it too.
Lawyers charge a lot per hour but also have large overheads, especially trial lawyers.
The reason labels have such high overheads is the same as for movie studios.
The reason it's slow is because the complexity is sometimes very high, the volumes of data to process are often very large, and the communications overheads between bank departments are just insane.
With just 60 employees at, say, $100k/yr each, their staffing overheads are $6m.
If my memory is not failing me I recall space overheads to be less that 20% in many cases.
Microsoft is just lowering its overheads whilst it matures the platform.
We cut out expensive retail overheads without ever compromising on quality.
In those days a third grade teacher might have some overheads.
For me it's worse: all I see are constant overheads between trivial prefix-free equivalents...
In one extreme, all dependencies are tracked and even fine grained updates can be updated efficiently but such fine-grained dependency tracking can lead to 10-100x space overheads.
- It is not true that self-adjusting computation necessarily leads to large space overheads.
Quote examples
If those bad employees could self select the "good enough" lifestyle provided by a basic income, we could reduce all the overheads associated with trying to protect workplaces from them.
You are correct, "Overheads of fetching library from a CDN are applicable to the first request" The problem is, because of the fragmentation, every website is asking you to hit a different URL, so every request is a "first request".
There needs to be more of a competitive concept of startup/failure/merger etc in the non-profit sector but unfortunately this very very rarely happens, so you end up with a cycle of "zombie" NGOs doing very little (with high overheads) but sucking up donor money - and then new NGOs with good ideas being locked out of being able to scale.
Proper noun examples
Overheads of fetching library from a CDN are applicable to the first request.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use overheads in a sentence?
Note that this £240 billion will have the overheads of running the welfare system built into it too.
What does overheads mean?
A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
What part of speech is overheads?
overheads is commonly used as noun.