Task: Wrong Candidate Generation
Input (English): to be paid or given for anything bought or taken in barter or for service rendered: CHARGE, PRICE”); Black’s Law Dictionary 312 (5th ed. 1979) (defining “cost” as “Expense; price. The sum or equivalent expended, paid or charged for something.”); Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language 591 (1934) (defining “cost” as “[t]hat which has to be given for a thing in order to procure it; especially, the price paid; outlay of any kind; expense”). In these circumstances, a credible argument can be made that, as between two plausible meanings, a reader should give the word “cost” its ordinary meaning as opposed to the more specialized meaning preferred by accountants or economists. See Perrin v. United States, 444 U.S. 37, 42, 100 S.Ct. 311, 314, 62 L.Ed.2d 199 (1979) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Holmquist, 36 F.3d 154, 159 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that  unless otherwise defined words will be interpreted as taking their ordinary contemporary common meaning  at the time congress enacted a statute and reviewing dictionaries from the era of the statutes enactment to assist in determining its meaning citation omitted (B) holding that an undefined statutory term should be given its natural ordinary meaning (C) holding that courts give the words of a statute their ordinary contemporary common meaning absent an indication congress intended them to bear some different import (D) recognizing that undefined words in a statute ordinarily should be interpreted as taking their ordinary contemporary common meaning (E) holding that statutory words must be given their ordinary contemporary meaning
Output (English): holding that an undefined statutory term should be given its natural ordinary meaning