cost
IPA: kˈɑst
noun
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
- (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- (obsolete) A rib; a side.
- (heraldry) A cottise.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
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Examples of "cost" in Sentences
- The charge for upload to the Internet covers the storage cost.
- It costs taxpayers to incarcerate those unable to pay the fines.
- The prospective homeowner is expected to pay a portion of the costs.
- At the end of the day the Indian consumer will have to pay the cost.
- In addition, the congestion charge exceeds the cost of running the car.
- The Province of Ontario agreed to pay for the costs of the airport ferry.
- The advantage to the employer is low cost of paying wages and efficiency.
- The acurate apportion of cost, gives an accurate figure of price control.
- The cost of the premium is built into the interest rate charged on the loan.
- It cost millions to develop, and that cost is amortized in the price of Windows.
- "I very much doubt whether we can get it at all; but it must be had, cost _what it may_ -- ay, _cost what it may_."
- Implementing the changes will cost $666 million -- that big sucking sound you hear is the $$cost$$ of more BUSH lies.
- The second reason is, that the cost of living in cities (as has been ascertained) is about double what it is in the country -- to this _cost_ we must _add_, for the
- Shifts in the AS Curve changes in the cost of inputs (any cost that would cause firms to offer more or less goods for sale at EVERY price) cost of inputs cost of inputs leftward shift rightward shift
- I-Mate Ultimate 8502 cost 300usd iMate Ultimate 5150 cost$200. 00usd iMate Ultimate 6150 cost$ 230. 20usd iMate Ultimate 7150 cost $252. 60usd iMate Ultimate 8150 cost $285. 50usd iMate Ultimate 9150 cost $292. 30usd
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- 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).
- Made Popular: 8 hours 44 min ago - they steal millions to build mansions for their kin. cost for infrared radar to detect small boats on ocean: couple $mil. cost to shell Somali coast: another few $mil. cost to burn villages harboring, or benefitting (like those mansions) pirates, & wipe that smile off twizzle stick's face: $cost of matches.
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