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overhead
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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
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Other meanings
2. noun
(computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
3. noun
(computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
4. noun
a transparency for use with an overhead projector
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