Usually means: Expenses not directly tied to production.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. overheads: Merriam-Webster
  2. overheads: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overheads: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overheads, overheads: Wordnik
  5. overheads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overheads: Wiktionary
  7. overheads: Dictionary.com
  8. Overheads: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. overheads: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. overheads: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. overheads: Finance-Glossary.com
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overheads: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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adjective:  Located above, especially over the head.
adjective:  (soccer) Kicked over one's own head.
noun:  (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
noun:  (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
noun:  (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
noun:  (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
noun:  (tennis) A smash.
noun:  (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
noun:  A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
noun:  (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
adverb:  Above one's head; in the sky.
adverb:  (archaic) Per head; for each individual.
noun:  (countable) An overhead projector.
noun:  (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
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