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n. An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.

n. The expenditure of something, such as time or labor, necessary for the attainment of a goal: "Freedom to advocate unpopular causes does not require that such advocacy be without cost” ( Milton Friedman).

n. Law The charges fixed for litigation, often payable by the losing party.

verb-intransitive. To require a specified payment, expenditure, effort, or loss: It costs more to live in the city.

v. To have as a price.

v. To cause to lose, suffer, or sacrifice: Participating in the strike cost me my job.

v. To estimate or determine the cost of: The accountants costed out our expenses.

idiom. at all costs Regardless of the expense or effort involved; by any means.

v. To incur a charge, a price.

v. To cause something to be lost.

v. To calculate or estimate a value.

n. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

n. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

n. Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.

n. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

n. A rib; a side; a region or coast.

n. See Cottise.

v. 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.

v. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

n. 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.

n. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

n. Expenses incurred in litigation.

n. Manner; way and means.

n. Quality; condition; property; value; worth.

To require the expenditure of (something valuable) in exchange, purchase, or payment; be of the price of; be acquired in return for: as, it cost five dollars.

In general, to require (as a thing or result to be desired) an expenditure of any specified thing, as time or labor; be done or acquired at the expense of, as of pain or loss; occasion or bring on (especially something evil) as a result.

n. The equivalent or price given for a thing or service exchanged, purchased, or paid for; the amount paid, or engaged to be paid, for some thing or some service: as, the cost of a suit of clothes; the cost of building a house.

n. That which is expended; outlay of any kind, as of money, labor, time, or trouble; expense or expenditure in general; specifically, great expense: as, the work was done at public cost.

n. plural In law: The sums fixed by law or allowed by the court for charges in a suit, awarded usually against the party losing, and in favor of the party prevailing or his attorney.

n. The sum which the law allows to the attorney, to be paid by his client.

n. Synonyms and Expense, Worth, etc. See price.

n. A rib or side.

n. In heraldry, same as cottise.

n. Costmary.

n. the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)

n. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

v. require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice

v. be priced at

n. the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

"The main reason was the sharp drop in oil prices and me steady growth in Brazil's domestic petroleum production, e.g., about 212 million barrels in 1988 at an estimated cost of $20 per barrel versus an “estimated cost” of alcohol of $45 per barrel according to Young (1989)."

costing    costs   

need    necessitate    call for    take    involve    require    postulate    ask    demand   

expense    expenditure    loss    to one's cost    bill of costs    to cost dear    needes cost    at all costs    dives costs    joint cost   

cottise   

cost a pretty penny    cost the earth    how much does it cost    cost an arm and a leg   

rib    side    cause    charge    expense    detriment    pain    suffering    price    charged   

Aust    Frost    accost    bossed    crossed    defrost    dost    embossed    exhaust    frost   

price    expense    value    amount    risk    requirement    loss    level    profit    performance