OPERATING COST as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance)
   • it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
   Synonym(s)
   • budget items (what does budget items mean?)
   • operating expense (what does operating expense mean?)
   • overhead (what does overhead mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) operating cost is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • expense (what does expense mean?)
   • disbursal (what does disbursal mean?)
   • disbursement (what does disbursement mean?)