sunk cost

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16 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَكْلِفَة غارِقَة — already incurred costs
• Chinese Mandarin: 沉沒成本 /沉没成本 (chénmò chéngběn) — already incurred costs
• Czech: utopené náklady — already incurred costs
• Finnish: upotettu kustannus — already incurred costs
• French: coût irrécupérable — already incurred costs
• German: versunkene Kosten — already incurred costs
• Hungarian: elsüllyedt költség — already incurred costs
• Japanese: 埋没費用 — already incurred costs
• Korean: 매몰비용 (maemolbiyong) — already incurred costs
• Polish: koszt utopiony — already incurred costs
• Russian: невозвра́тная затра́та (nevozvrátnaja zatráta) — already incurred costs
• Serbo-Croatian: nepovratan trošak — already incurred costs
• Spanish: costo hundido — already incurred costs
• Spanish: costo sumergido — already incurred costs
• Spanish: costo perdido — already incurred costs
• Spanish: costo retrospectivo — already incurred costs