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Definition 2025

sunk_cost

sunk cost

English

Noun

sunk cost ‎(plural sunk costs)

(economics) A cost that has already been incurred and which cannot be recovered to any significant degree.

Translations

already incurred costs

Chinese:
Mandarin: 沉沒成本 (zh), 沉没成本 (zh) ‎(chénmò chéngběn)
Czech: utopené náklady m pl
Finnish: upotettu kustannus
German: versunkene Kosten pl

Hungarian: elsüllyedt költség (hu)
Japanese: 埋没費用
Korean: 매몰비용 ‎(maemolbiyong)
Russian:
Serbo-Croatian: nepovratan trošak