sunk cost
埋没費用、cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered
一般例文
- Car makers have enormous sunk costs in plants, processes and skills.
英字新聞からの例文
- 引用元 : Financial Times (by RICHARD WATERS) - Tech trends for 2018: the big will get bigger (2017/12)
The sunk cost of the existing IT infrastructure will mean that the transition to cloud computing will take many years to play out.
