sunk
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The authors’ advice: “Ignore sunk costs, but assume others will not.”
European auto makers now have sunk enormous investments into EV development and manufacture to prepare for the old mandate, whether or not European consumers want the cars.
Ukraine has managed to maintain a corridor for its grain exports and has sunk Russian warships with missiles and sea-borne drones.
From Barron's
The state Public Utilities Commission rejected PG&E’s plan this month because it “risks stranding sunk infrastructure costs,” namely in transmission systems.
The numbers in 2000 were immense, with well over $100 billion being sunk into new telecom networks in the late 1990s.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.