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How to use the word overheads in a Sentence?

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Could have been as simple as fuel, interest payments, other overheads, but the idea that PSP would have paid for IT upgrades that a carrier saw no need for is not realistic.

Robert Mann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We would expect there to be some synergy (in the HKEX deal) both in terms of corporate overheads and technology.

James Bevan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in all my 30 years in the business, you've got packaging, assembling, auditing, labor, overheads, components, logistics, transportation.

Larry Sloven

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You've got packaging, assembling, auditing, labor, overheads, components, logistics, transportation, i went from first gear to fourth gear very quickly.

Larry Sloven

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

William F. Buckley Jr.

added by Normando
5 years ago

In much the same as a company with minimal overheads is more able to weather out an economic downturn,( if) a species needs less energy to live, it is more likely to survive periods when there is decreased food availability, in fact, it has recently been demonstrated that the energy expenditure of humans and other primates is remarkably low compared with other placental mammals, and that this may be linked to our long lifespan.

Danny Longman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The point is that the company now is doing so well. It just feels like we need to be a public company, our overheads barely went up last year and yet we increased profits by 60 percent. We can do M&A without the money. For now we're just looking at getting the float away.

Peter Cruddas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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