Operating expense and Operating costs

Operating expense noun - The expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes.

Operating costs and operating expense are semantically related. in money needed to run a business topic. In some cases you can use "Operating costs" instead a noun phrase "Operating expense".

Operating expense and operating costs are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Operating expense" with "Operating costs", this phrases are similar.