Associations to the word «Sunk»

Wiktionary

SUNK, verb. Past participle of sink
SUNK COST, noun. (economics) A cost that has already been incurred and which cannot be recovered to any significant degree.
SUNK COSTS, noun. Plural of sunk cost

Dictionary definition

SUNK, adjective. Doomed to extinction.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope