English dictionary
cost
/k/O/st/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
Source: WordNet 3.0
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the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
ExamplesHe couldn't calculate the cost of the collection.
Source: WordNet 3.0
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value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
ExamplesThe cost in human life was enormous.
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A rib; a side; a region or coast.
Source: webster1913
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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.
Source: webster1913
verb
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be priced at
ExamplesThese shoes cost $100.
Synonyms beSource: WordNet 3.0
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require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
ExamplesThis mistake cost him his job.
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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 <i>cost</i> a dollar; the effort <i>cost</i> his life.
Source: webster1913