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Cost
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. countable, uncountable
"The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million."
- 2 Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance. obsolete
- 3 A rib; a side. obsolete
"betwixt the costs of a ship"
- 4 the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) wordnet
- 5 A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. countable, uncountable
"Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health."
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- 6 Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- 7 A cottise.
- 8 value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something wordnet
- 9 the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor wordnet
- 1 To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. ditransitive, transitive
"This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30."
- 2 require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice wordnet
- 3 To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. ditransitive, transitive
"Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives."
- 4 be priced at wordnet
- 5 To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
"to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe"
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- 6 To calculate or estimate a price.
"I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand."
- 7 To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering. colloquial, transitive
"I can give you the names, but it'll cost you."
Etymology
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.
From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.
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