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Meaning and definition for "cost" word
[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?"
[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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\Cost\ (k[o^]st; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cost}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Costing}.] [OF. coster, couster, F. co[^u]ter, 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 diamond 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, which cost them woe. --Milton. {To cost dear}, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.
\Cost\, n. [OF. cost, F. co[^u]t. 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 benefit. 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) 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.
Synonyms for cost
be, monetary value, price, toll
See also: ask | call for | cost of living | cost overrun | damage | demand | disbursal | disbursement | expenditure | inexpensiveness | involve | payment | portage | price | production cost | ransom | ransom money | replacement cost | set back | take |
Related terms: bereavement, burden of expenditure, denial, destruction, distributed costs, expenditure, incur costs, loser, losing streak, mount up to, operating costs, overhead, pay out, perdition, price tag, robbery, ruin, run into, run through, spend, taking away, throw money around
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Let's analyse "cost" as pure text. This string has Four letters in One syllable and One vowel. 25% of vowels is 13.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: TSOC. Average typing speed for these characters is 1045 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
cost: 6 = 6, reduced: 6 . and the final result is Six. |
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