How to Use indirect cost in a Sentence

indirect cost

noun

• But the indirect cost of the quake could be much higher, and recovery will be neither easy nor quick.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
• This can add $50 per hour of indirect cost to the musician, or the musician spent thousands of dollars building their own space in the past.
  — Chris Erhardt, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• The biggest surprise came when Marshall and his students found that in many species, the indirect costs of pregnancy were greater than the direct ones.
  — Carl Zimmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2024
• Those that build placentas, like humans, were found to have some of the highest indirect costs of gestation, at around 96%.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 31 May 2024
• And experts expect the public to shoulder indirect costs related to the move, depending on how the saga resolves.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• According to Gallup, the direct and indirect cost of replacing an employee can range from one-half to two times the position’s salary.
  — Victoria Burkhart, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• This includes both the direct costs for shelter -- like rent and mortgage payments -- as well as indirect costs for things like furnishings and supplies.
  — John Maxfield, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
• Parents struggling to care for a child on the autism spectrum have the stress of direct costs -- such treatments and therapies -- and indirect costs, like loss of income for parents who need to work less, or not at all.
  — Katie Parsons, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 July 2018
• These sources cover both the direct medical costs and the indirect costs of each condition; for instance, one paper estimates the total cost of chronic back pain in the US.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2018
• Last year, city officials attempted to figure out just how much the city was spending on homelessness, both in direct and indirect costs.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
• And people could face indirect costs if utilities increase customer rates to offset the expense.
  — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
• In other terms, the indirect costs of bearing a child comprise 96% of the total energy burden of reproduction.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
• Direct costs relate to the value of fuel and time wasted, and indirect costs refer to freight and business fees from company vehicles idling in traffic.
  — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2018
• The ambassadors’ cherry-picking method—to focus solely on deaths of service members and line-item budget costs—is to ignore the considerable indirect costs of war, costs that can’t be wished away.
  — Adam Wunische, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
• Other indirect costs of traffic, such as food truck operators’ also being stuck in traffic, comes to $45.6 billion per year.
  — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 24 Feb. 2018
• Some researchers had guessed that indirect costs — that is, the energy females use to fuel their own bodies while pregnant — might come to only 20 percent of the direct energy in the baby’s tissues.
  — Carl Zimmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2024
• Each of the counties hope to get some compensation for the indirect costs of opioid use — like the tobacco settlements years ago that continue to generate funds for Idaho and other states.
  — Audrey Dutton, idahostatesman, 15 Apr. 2018
• As these children are not financially independent, deporting their parents can lead to child care costs and other indirect costs that will be borne over time.
  — Mark Humphery-Jenner, Slate Magazine, 27 Feb. 2017
• As for indirect costs, which include those not working or spending money, Mulyadi says these are often trickier to quantify.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The indirect cost to students and the quality of our education system remains uncounted.
  — Derek Newton, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• Another consideration is that legal changes can be costly, both in terms of the direct costs of implementation and enforcement, and in terms of indirect costs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• Regardless of how small the measurable, direct impact of additional flights caused by loyalty programs, their indirect cost is high.
  — Seth Kugel, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Fundamentally, this means that a cost may not be allocated as an indirect cost to a final cost objective if other costs incurred for the same purpose have been included as direct costs of that or any other cost objective.
  — Jennifer Eubanks, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• This cost includes the direct financial impact, such as regulatory fines and legal fees, as well as indirect costs such as reputational damage and lost customers.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• In a speech, Mr. Carney said that a trade war would have direct costs to the global economy through reduced trade as well as indirect costs ranging from weaker business and consumer confidence to higher inflation and sagging productivity growth.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• From this past research, the authors pooled the disparate data, and created a simple mathematical model for understanding both the direct and indirect costs of reproduction.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
• Here’s what attracts executive interest: Quicker access to talent; a larger talent pool than locally available; greater cost control versus full-time employment; and direct and indirect cost savings.
  — Jon Younger, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• But there’s also the indirect costs to reproduction: the energy expended in synthesizing and carrying those offspring, which has previously been largely unquantified.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
• Since protecting social robots would effectively limit people’s property rights, indirect costs could range from a distortion of market incentives to negative effects on research and development investments.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• The profits attributable to the assets being transferred are approximately $140 million, excluding depreciation, amortization and other direct and indirect costs, Shire said.
  — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024