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sunk costs fallacies

sunk costs fallacies is the plural of sunk costs fallacy.

Meaning of sunk costs fallacy

Noun

sunk costs fallacy (plural sunk costs fallacies)

  1. The systematic tendency to allow unrecoverable past investments of time, money, or effort to affect a forward-looking decision, thereby continuing a project even when expected future costs exceed expected future benefits.

Questions about sunk costs fallacies

What is sunk costs fallacies the plural of?
Sunk costs fallacies is the plural of sunk costs fallacy.

Words near sunk costs fallacies in the dictionary

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

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