burn rate
Bureaucratic/ˈbɝn reɪt/n. (bureaucratic)
Etym.from literal measures of combustion and fuel consumption in nineteenth-century steam engineering, later appropriated by venture finance discourse in the 1970s, see Harrington 1979.
A reported monthly cash outflow metric used to establish financing runway and to normalize or conceal poor unit economics.
'With current assumptions runway extends to eighteen months,' - Q3 Board Deck, slide 12