cost

Speech parts

1. cost - Noun

2. cost - Adjective

3. cost - Verb

5. Cost - Proper noun

Meaning

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

See Cottise.

of Cost

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 cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

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.

Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

Expenses incurred in litigation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Price toll rate charge expense fee sacrifice tariff expenditure fare outlay tab asking price price tag monetary value

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Antonyms

return ground trade income indemnity exchange

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Hypernyms

take value need require demand involve

Hyponyms

portage charge Price damage expense payment

Phrases with the word

bearing the cost acquisition cost high cost of living at cost cost-based additional cost

Derivatives

cost costing

Anagrams

scot CSTO COTS OCTS OSTC OTSC otcs

Examples

These shoes cost $100 Source: Internet

the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver Source: Internet

he puts a high price on his services Source: Internet

he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection Source: Internet

the cost in human life was enormous Source: Internet

the price of success is hard work Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Cossumbazar Cossyphicula roberti cossyrite cost - benefit analyses cost - benefit analysis cost a bomb