at all costs

Speech parts

1. at all costs - Adverb

2. at all costs - Phrase

Meaning

regardless of the cost involved

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Synonyms

at any cost at any expense regardless whatever it takes no matter what for any sakes for any sake come rain or come shine in spite of everything by hell and high water at all cost no matter what the cost matter what it costs no matter how much it costs no matter what it costs
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Antonyms

never when Hell freezes over no way not on your life not in a million years not for all the tea in china
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Examples

Peace if possible. Truth at all costs. Martin Luther

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. Arthur Helps

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. Anthony Bourdain

And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. Arnold Bennett

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi

It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground. H. L. Mencken

Words in the phrase

at all costs

Close letter words and terms

at all accounts at all adventures at all cost at all events at all hands at all hours