Definition of Fixed charge

1. Noun. A periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.).

Exact synonyms: Fixed Cost, Fixed Costs
Generic synonyms: Charge
Specialized synonyms: Cover, Cover Charge, Interest, Fee, Due

Definition of Fixed charge

1. Noun. (finance) an unvarying charge such as rent or property tax. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixed Charge

fixed-point part
fixed-point representation system
fixed-rate pacemaker
fixed-term
fixed-term contract
fixed-width font
fixed address
fixed addresses
fixed air
fixed alkali
fixed alkaloid
fixed appliance
fixed bridge
fixed charge
fixed charges
fixed contracture
fixed cost
fixed costs
fixed coupling
fixed disk
fixed disks
fixed dressing
fixed drug eruption
fixed feast
fixed head coupé
fixed head coupés
fixed idea
fixed intonation

Literary usage of Fixed charge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Stock-brokers and Stock-exchanges by John Randolph Dos Passos (1905)
"TIME-BARGAINS—STOCK THAT HAS A DRAWING PROVISION, OR ACCRUING SOME SPECIAL ADVANTAGE OR HAVING A fixed charge. DECREE. ART. 51. The regulations provided in ..."

2. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"Consequently the fixed charge on these First General Mortgage Bonds had to be reduced. This was done by giving the bondholder 75 per cent in new First ..."

3. Coming In From The Cold: Improving District Heating Policy In Transition by International Energy Agency (2004)
"The fixed charge is unrelated to actual heat consumption and is based on fixed ... The fixed charge is often called a capacity charge as it is determined by ..."

4. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1920)
"This form of rate carries out the principle embodied in the fixed charge form, and if a block rate is properly constructed it should distribute the fixed ..."

5. Journal of the New England Water Works Association by New England Water Works Association (1915)
"(c) A fixed charge per annum for each size of service, covering readiness to serve with a certain amount of water included, and a fixed or sliding rate per ..."

6. Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn by Henry Thomas Riley, John Carpenter, London Guildhall, Great Britain Public Record Office, British Library (1862)
"And if such does pass, it shall pay a fixed charge of six pence, and for the half of such fixed charge three pence, and for the fourth part of such fixed ..."

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