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COST
price, cost, toll
(noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; “the cost in human life was enormous”; “the price of success is hard work”; “what price glory?”
cost
(noun) the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
cost
(verb) require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; “This mistake cost him his job”
cost, be
(verb) be priced at; “These shoes cost $100”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle costed or cost)
To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
To calculate or estimate a price.
Usage notes
The past tense and past participle is cost in the sense of "this computer cost me ÂŁ600", but costed in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was costed at $1 million."
Etymology 2
Noun
cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)
Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
Hyponyms
• appraisal cost
• carbon cost
• flotation cost
• landed cost
• marginal cost
• opportunity cost
• private cost
• sunk cost
• unexpired cost
• unit cost
• variable cost
Etymology 3
Noun
cost (plural costs)
(obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Etymology 4
Noun
cost (plural costs)
(obsolete) A rib; a side.
(heraldry) A cottise.
Anagrams
• C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot
Proper noun
Cost (plural Costs)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cost is the 18423rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1503 individuals. Cost is most common among White (87.03%) individuals.
Anagrams
• C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot
Source: Wiktionary
Cost (kst; 115), n. Etym: [L. costa rib. See Coast.]
1. A rib; a side; a region or coast. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Betwixt the costs of a ship. B. Jonson.
2. (Her.)
Definition: See Cottise.
Cost (kst; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cost; p. pr. & vb. n. Costing.] Etym: [OF. coster, couster, F. co, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constant.]
1. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.
2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. To do him wanton rites, whichcost them woe. Milton. To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.
Cost, n. Etym: [OF. cost, F. co. See Cost, v. t. ]
1. The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefitt. One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. Shak. At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. Prescott.
2. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering. I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils. Milton.
3. pl. (Law)
Definition: Expenses incurred in litigation.
Note: Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party. Bill of costs. See under Bill.
– Cost free, without outlay or expense. "Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge." Thackeray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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