sunk costs
Economics
noun
Financial outlay which has already been incurred; costs which are unavoidable when embarking upon a particular commercial endeavour.
Origin
Early 20th century.
- cattle cake
- cattle call
- cattle class
- cattle dog
- cattle-duff
- cattle duffer
- cattle duffing
- cattle egret
- cattle fair
- cattle grid
- cattle guard
- cattle-like
- cattleman
- cattle plague
- cattle run
- cattle station
- cattle stop
- cattleya
- cattle yard
- cat train
- catty
- catty-cornered
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius
- CATV
- catwalk