Cost
[kɒst] or [kɔst]
Definition
(noun.) the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
(verb.) require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; 'This mistake cost him his job'.
(verb.) be priced at; 'These shoes cost $100'.
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Definition
(n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
(n.) See Cottise.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cost
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
(v. t.) 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 benefit.
(v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
(v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Be had for, be exchanged for, be bought for.[2]. Require to be suffered.
n. [1]. Expense, charge, price.[2]. Loss, detriment, damage, pain, suffering.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Expenditure, outlay, disbursement, payment, compensation, price, worth,expense, charge, outgoings
ANT:Receipt, income, emolument, return, profit, perquisite, revenue
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Definition
v.t. to bring a certain price: to require to be laid out or suffered:—pa.t. and pa.p. cost.—n. what is laid out or suffered to obtain anything: (pl.) expenses of a lawsuit.—adj. Cost′-free free of charge.—n. Cost′liness.—adv. Cost′ly of great cost: high-priced: valuable.—Cost price the price which the merchant pays.—Prime cost the price of production without regard to profit.
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Examples
- I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She could write letters enough for both, as she knew to her cost, and it was far better for him to be amiable than learned. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He considers what the land will cost him, in tax and price together. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yellow diamonds are more flashingly brilliant than white stones that cost much more. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The first year the lamps cost us about $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If it was cheap ugliness, I'd say nothing, but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But though the wear and tear of a free servant be equally at the expense of his master, it generally costs him much less than that of a slave. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the Milan cathedral it costs five francs to see it, and at St. Peter's, at Rome, it is almost impossible to see it at any price. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Dodson and Fogg have taken Mrs. Bardell in execution for her costs, Sir,' said Job. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It warn't much--execution for nine pound nothin', multiplied by five for costs; but hows'ever here he stopped for seventeen year. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Thus they not only had a greater investment than necessary in the truck itself, but were paying an exclusive charge in the way of operating costs and depreciation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He's never content unless he gets my yellow-sealed wine, which costs me ten shillings a bottle, hang him! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Platinum even in those days was very expensive, costing several dollars an ounce, and I owned only three small strips. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I can't have a carriage without its costing ever so much. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A roller three inches long, costing forty cents, will answer for all small leaves and branches of plants. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The lamps at that time were costing about $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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