cost

Meaning

Verb

1. (ditransitive, transitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
2. (ditransitive, transitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
3. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
4. To calculate or estimate a price.
5. (colloquial, transitive) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
2. (countable, uncountable) A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
2. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A rib; a side.
2. A cottise.

Synonyms

price

expense

value

charge

expenditure

worth

payment

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outlay

fee

expenses

rate

spend

waste

disbursement

lose

outgo

outgoing

be worth

be

amount

fare

come

toll

squander

eat

🍽️

monetary value

insurance and freight

have value

damage

suffer

wage

capital

pay

💸

wages

consume

figure

asset

come to

bill

merit

overhead

expend

eat up

coastline

be used up

duty

check

loved

dissipate

lettuce

Translations

coût

costo

coûter

Kosten

Preis

costare

prix

kosten

costar

custo

kosten

costo

precio

prezzo

coste

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: costen

Inherited from Middle English: cost

In summary

From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).

Sentences

Those make it very cost intensive for a lot of families to settle in Enghien.

With your thirty percent discount it will cost eighty-five dollars .