"fixed cost" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "fixed costs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fixed cost (plural fixed costs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Accounting",
          "orig": "en:Accounting",
          "parents": [
            "Finance",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "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. [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead."
      ],
      "id": "en-fixed_cost-en-noun-EQrkpcAi",
      "links": [
        [
          "accounting",
          "accounting#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "cost",
          "cost"
        ],
        [
          "output",
          "output"
        ],
        [
          "sales",
          "sales"
        ],
        [
          "overhead",
          "overhead"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(accounting, chiefly in the plural) A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "gùdìng chéngběn",
          "sense": "cost that does not vary",
          "word": "固定成本"
        },
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "cost that does not vary",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "coût fixe"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "cost that does not vary",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "koszt stały"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Fixed cost"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fixed cost"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fixed costs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fixed cost (plural fixed costs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Accounting"
      ],
      "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. [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "accounting",
          "accounting#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "cost",
          "cost"
        ],
        [
          "output",
          "output"
        ],
        [
          "sales",
          "sales"
        ],
        [
          "overhead",
          "overhead"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(accounting, chiefly in the plural) A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Fixed cost"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "gùdìng chéngběn",
      "sense": "cost that does not vary",
      "word": "固定成本"
    },
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cost that does not vary",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coût fixe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "cost that does not vary",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "koszt stały"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fixed cost"
}