0 an amount of money spent by a business on things other than the products they make
1 the cost of something that is not directly involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service, for example the cost of renting a building or of training staff:
It has been estimated that the indirect cost can be reached by multiplying that figure by seven.
The indirect cost in domestic heat and light cannot be calculated but would probably be greater.
The high indirect cost may also reflect that people of working age, and not only the elderly, are afflicted by rheumatic conditions, and the conditions are chronic.
It is difficult to estimate the indirect cost of brucellosis as measured by lost days of work, and the socioeconomic and psychological impact for the families and the communities.
So, the nonproduction or unavailability cost of complex systems such as quay crane (indirect cost) is also important even more than the repairing cost (direct cost).
Invariably, such models will involve one or more business rules, for instance, rules that state how to determine hours of vacation, or how to use indirect cost rates.
The indirect cost based on a donor's half-day off-work to donate blood was calculated to be 42.1, based on an annual salary of 20,202 (3).
Towards a new approach for estimating indirect cost of disease.
