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Cost   /kɑst/  /kɔst/   Listen
Cost

noun
1.
The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
2.
The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold).  Synonyms: monetary value, price.  "He puts a high price on his services" , "He couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
3.
Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something.  Synonyms: price, toll.  "The price of success is hard work" , "What price glory?"
verb
(past & past part. costed; pres. part. costing)
1.
Be priced at.  Synonym: be.
2.
Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.



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"Cost" Quotes from Famous Books



... his equipment, and that which has procured him such a retinue of little ragged and shouting boys, is his saddle. This extraordinary piece of furniture, which cost the owner five thousand dollars, is entirely covered with velvet, richly embossed in massive gold; he sometimes appears with another, ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca
... answered Ruggiero, looking critically along the shelves, as though to select a remedy. "A little of the best," he added, jingling a few silver coins in his pockets and wondering how much the stuff would cost. ...
— The Children of the King • F. Marion Crawford
... do as you like, I suppose: but I cannot see what is the use of it. You can do no good; you will lose your place here; it will cost you something; and when you get there you may have ...
— The Revolution in Tanner's Lane • Mark Rutherford
... his committee reported did not alter the framework of the instrument, but added only certain safeguards to individual rights. The lack of a declaration of rights had been deplored in every convention and had cost the support of many respectable people. Moreover, two communities had not yet "thrown themselves into the bosom of the Confederacy." The wisdom of this course was attested by the prompt ratification of ten of the ...
— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson
... attend vpon the safegard of the same. And bicause there were at the least a fortie ships lost by violence of this tempest, so as there was no hope of recouerie in them, he saw yet how the rest with great labour and cost might be repaired: wherefore he chose out wrights among the legions, sent for other into Gallia, and wrote ouer to such as he had left there in charge with the gouernment of the countrie, to prouide so manie ships as they ...
— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) • Raphael Holinshed


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