overheads

plural of overhead

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheads
Noun
  • The weather can have a notable impact on heating expenses in a number of ways—not only because colder temperatures will raise the amount of energy needed to warm a home, but also because colder weather increases the demand for electricity, which can cause prices to go up too.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Partly because of Pure Water expenses, the San Diego City Council is scheduled Tuesday to approve raising water rates more than 60% over four years and sewer rates more than 30% during that time frame.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Daylight saving time was introduced in the United States in 1918 with the Standard Time Act, which was meant to lower fuel costs during the First World War.
    Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2025
  • But for now, the best view from Turn 1 costs only the extra price of showing up early and braving the midday Texas sun.
    Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The big four expenditures — Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, debt interest and defense — account for nearly three-quarters of national spending.
    Jim Nowlan, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In June 2024, the Charlotte City Council agreed to terms of a deal that committed $650 million in public money to update Bank of America Stadium in Uptown — setting in motion one of the largest public expenditures in city history for a single project.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In their world, which is also ours, selfhood has degraded into taste, preferences, demography, and outlays of attention and money.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Governments are acknowledging the need for bigger defense outlays.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Grant disbursements for Gateway have been on hold since then, Sigmund said in an email.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Only about 16% of graduate students have relied on Grad PLUS loans, but the program accounted for 32% of federal-loan disbursements, according to a report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workplace.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Overheads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheads. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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