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sunk costs

sunk costs is the plural of sunk cost.

Meaning of sunk cost

Noun

sunk cost (plural sunk costs)

  1. A cost that has already been incurred and which cannot be recovered to any significant degree.
    • sunk costs fallacy

Questions about sunk costs

What is sunk costs the plural of?
Sunk costs is the plural of sunk cost.

Words near sunk costs in the dictionary

  1. Suniti
  2. sunitinib
  3. Sunja
  4. sunk
  5. sunk cost
  6. sunk costs
  7. sunk costs fallacies
  8. sunk costs fallacy
  9. sunk fence
  10. sunk fences
  11. sunk in

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