Definitions for Cost

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Cost cost

Spelling: [kawst, kost]

IPA: /kɔst, kɒst/

Cost is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Cost (cost).

Definitions for Cost

noun

1. the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
2. an outlay or expenditure of money, time, labor, trouble, etc.:
3. a sacrifice, loss, or penalty:
4. costs, Law. money allowed to a successful party in a lawsuit in compensation for legal expenses incurred, chargeable to the unsuccessful party. money due to a court or one of its officers for services in a cause.

Idioms

1. at all costs, regardless of the effort involved; by any means necessary: Also, at any cost.

Verb phrases

1. cost out, to calculate the cost of (a project, product, etc.) in advance:

verb (used with object)

1. to require the payment of (money or something else of value) in an exchange:
2. to result in or entail the loss of:
3. to cause to lose or suffer:
4. to entail (effort or inconvenience):
5. to cause to pay or sacrifice:
6. to estimate or determine the cost of (manufactured articles, new processes, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to estimate or determine costs, as of manufacturing something.

Origin of Cost

1200-50; (v.) Middle English costen Anglo-French, Old French co(u)ster Latin constāre to stand together, be settled, cost; cf. constant; (noun) Middle English Ang

Examples for Cost

It'll cost him more than he'll ever get from my miserly uncle to repair it.

We wish nothing that can be had only at the cost of another people.

“The sensation these objects presented receded as their cost increased,” notes Rabinowitz.

And that realization comes at the cost of severe, public embarrassment for many, including the victim/proposed.

It was easily done, and without any cost or sacrifice of principle.

Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

But the F-35 has been plagued with massive delays and cost overruns—mostly due to design defects and software issues.

But the result was achieved only at a cost which the little party could ill sustain.

I'll take no money out of a thing that cost Allister's death.

It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.