English Explanatory Dictionary

sunk costs fallacy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon where somebody justifies an increased investment of money or other resources based on the cumulative prior investment (the sunk costs), despite new evidence suggesting that the cost of continuing now outweighs the expected benefit.

Word forms

sunk costs fallacy sunk costs fallacies

Related words

throw good money after bad double down
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