Fees for condominium associations and maintenance also may add to a transaction's overall expense.

It all sounds quite rarefied, but the mat actually accounts for a small portion of the overall expense.

Many college students have a limited money supply because of the overall expense of college.

And by subcontracting parts of the planes to low-cost manufacturing areas, the company helps hold down overall expenses.

But Times Mirror said it managed to cut overall expenses at its newspapers by 4 percent.

Chemical's cost-cutting program reduced its overall expenses to $1.25 billion from $1.33 billion in the fourth quarter of 1994.

Its revenue stream improved 2.4% from 2010 to 2011 by bettering net income and lowering overall expenses.

He declined to give specific figures but described the cost as a small fraction of the Law Department's overall expenses.

Governing body decreases overall expenses last year by a third but Proms hospitality increases from £4,668 in 2010.

The space agency counts fewer items than most experts do in calculating the overall expense of shuttle operations, saying flights now cost $363 million each.