cost
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
Inflected forms:
form: costs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: costing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cost
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cost
pos: verb
tags: past
form: costed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: costed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: costs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
transitive
examples: This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
gloss: To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
transitive
examples: Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
the packaging of home-delivered products now accounts for 30% of the solid rubbish the US generates annually, and the cardboard alone costs 1bn trees.
though it cost me ten nights' watchings
gloss: To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
pos: verb
examples: to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."
gloss: To calculate or estimate a price.
pos: verb
examples: I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
gloss: To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.
That's going to cost you!
gloss: Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
gloss: A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.
The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.
We simply do not have the option to return to a lower economic level, at least not a rational option. Peer polity competition drives increased complexity and resource consumption regardless of costs, human or ecological.
Related words: at cost
cost and freight
cost avoidance
cost benefit analysis
cost center
cost centre
cost containment
cost control
cost cutting
cost objective
cost of business
cost of doing business
cost of living
cost of money
cost of sales
cost overrun
cost per available seat mile
cost price
design to cost
Derived words: cost an arm and a leg
cost a pretty penny
cost out
cost the earth
cost up
how much does it cost
miscost
recost
aftercost
costable
cost base
cost-benefit
cost-cutting
cost cutting
cost-effective
cost efficiency
cost-efficient
cost estimate
costful
cost function
costimate
costimation
costless
costly
cost-prohibitive
cost-push
cost-saving
cost saving
costware
costworthy
high-cost
isocost
low-cost
oncost
overcost
transaction cost
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