fixed cost; fixed expense
Business and accounting term for costs that do not vary with production or sales volume, such as rent or salaries.
Rent is one of the monthly fixed expenses.
We relocated the office to reduce fixed costs.
The company moved offices in order to cut fixed costs.
Running a shop incurs a certain amount of fixed costs every month.
By switching to remote work, we were able to keep fixed costs down.
The manager first calculated the fixed costs before drawing up the business plan.