"fixed cost" meaning in English

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          "name": "Accounting",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: variable cost"
        },
        {
          "text": "Rent is a fixed cost.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Our fixed costs are too high.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:",
          "text": "\"Railways have to bear the very high fixed costs associated with the provision and maintenance of a specialised route system for their own exclusive use. [...]\"",
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        "A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead."
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        [
          "cost",
          "cost"
        ],
        [
          "output",
          "output"
        ],
        [
          "sales",
          "sales"
        ],
        [
          "overhead",
          "overhead"
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        "(accounting, chiefly in the plural) A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead."
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        "accounting",
        "business",
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      "translations": [
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "gùdìng chéngběn",
          "sense": "cost that does not vary",
          "word": "固定成本"
        },
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "cost that does not vary",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "fixní náklad"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "cost that does not vary",
          "word": "kiinteä kustannus"
        },
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "cost that does not vary",
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          "word": "coût fixe"
        },
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          "sense": "cost that does not vary",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "koszt stały"
        }
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        "Fixed cost"
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  "word": "fixed cost"
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        },
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          "ref": "1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "gùdìng chéngběn",
      "sense": "cost that does not vary",
      "word": "固定成本"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "cost that does not vary",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fixní náklad"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cost that does not vary",
      "word": "kiinteä kustannus"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cost that does not vary",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "coût fixe"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "cost that does not vary",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "koszt stały"
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  "word": "fixed cost"
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