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Cost   /kɑst/  /kɔst/   Listen
Cost

noun
1.
The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
2.
The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold).  Synonyms: monetary value, price.  "He puts a high price on his services" , "He couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
3.
Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something.  Synonyms: price, toll.  "The price of success is hard work" , "What price glory?"
verb
(past & past part. costed; pres. part. costing)
1.
Be priced at.  Synonym: be.
2.
Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.



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"Cost" Quotes from Famous Books



... set consider'ble by me, mother did, bein' the oldest; and I wouldn't miss makin' her last days happy, not if it cost me all the arms and legs I've got," said Joe, as he awkwardly struggled into the big boots an hour after leave to go home was ...
— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott
... in the language. They have led to a vast amount of unnecessary buying. They have developed a talent for extravagance in our people. They have created a large and growing sisterhood and brotherhood of dead-beats. They have led to bankruptcy and slow pay and bad debts. They have raised the cost of everything we require because the tradesman compels us to pay his uncollected accounts. They are added to your bills and mine, and the merchant prince suffers no impairment of ...
— 'Charge It' - Keeping Up With Harry • Irving Bacheller
... this process can be repeated until the ballast is exhausted. The greatest height ever attained by aeronauts is the 7-1/4 miles, or 37,000 feet, of Messrs. Glaisher and Coxwell on September 5, 1862. The ascent nearly cost them their lives, for at an elevation of about 30,000 feet they were partly paralyzed by the rarefaction of the air, and had not Mr. Coxwell been able to pull the valve rope with his teeth and cause a descent, both would have died from want ...
— How it Works • Archibald Williams
... was greater than ever. Never before had such a victory been won at such little cost. This night the village danced and sang, and Sitting Bull kept by himself, and accepted ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin
... perfectly useless undertaking, even for an army of fire-eaters, to offer battle to the irresistible heroes of our valley. In all this I of course acquiesced, and looked forward with no little interest to the return of the conquerors, whose victory I feared might not have been purchased without cost to themselves. ...
— Typee - A Romance of the South Sea • Herman Melville


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