sunk cost

English

Noun

sunk cost (plural sunk costs)

1. (economics) A cost that has already been incurred and which cannot be recovered to any significant degree.

Translations

already incurred costs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉沒成本／沉没成本 (zh) (chénmò chéngběn)

• Czech: utopené náklady m pl
• Finnish: upotettu kustannus
• German: versunkene Kosten pl
• Hungarian: elsüllyedt költség (hu)
• Japanese: 埋没費用
• Korean: 매몰비용 (maemolbiyong)
• Russian: невозвра́тная затра́та f (nevozvrátnaja zatráta)
• Serbo-Croatian: nepovratan trošak
• Spanish: costo hundido m

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