cost
see also: Cost
Pronunciation Verb
Cost
Proper noun
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see also: Cost
Pronunciation Verb
cost (costs, present participle costing; past and past participle cost)
- To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
- It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546 ↗; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860 ↗, page 0016 ↗:
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
- RQ
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
- 1977, Star Wars
- LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
- French: coûter, couter
- German: kosten
- Italian: costare
- Portuguese: custar
- Russian: сто́ить
- Spanish: costar
cost
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
- We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
- The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
- Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.
- The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.
- French: coût, frais
- German: Kosten
- Italian: costo, spesa
- Portuguese: custo
- Russian: расхо́ды
- Spanish: costa, gasto, costo
cost (plural costs)
- (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
- This word "graved image" betokenneth, needs cost,.. a feigned graved image.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
cost (plural costs)
- (obsolete) A rib; a side.
- 1625, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News
- betwixt the costs of a ship
- 1625, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News
- (heraldry) A cottise.
Cost
Proper noun
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