overhead

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/

Noun

uncountable countable

(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

Japanese Meaning

間接経費（製品やサービスに直接割り当てられない、事業運営にかかる一般的な費用） / 管理費（企業の運営に必要だが、特定の製品・サービスへ直接帰属しない費用）

What is this buttons?

We need to reduce our overhead before the end of the quarter to improve profit margins.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

四半期末までに間接費を削減して利益率を改善する必要があります。

Details

Sense（1）

(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

Sense（2）

(countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

Sense（3）

Sense（4）

(uncountable, business) Wasted money.

Sense（5）

(tennis) A smash.

Sense（6）

(nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.

Sense（7）

A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Details

Sense（8）

(transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.

Sense（9）

(computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.

Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.

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