cost

Meaning

Verb

1. To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
2. 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) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.

Noun

1. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
2. 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.

Concepts

cost

price

expense

value

charge

expenditure

worth

payment

outlay

expenses

fee

rate

spend

be worth

lose

waste

outgoing

disbursement

outgo

fare

amount

be

wage

insurance and freight

come to

bill

merit

asset

capital

consume

squander

damage

overhead

have value

monetary value

toll

figure

wages

come

pay

eat

suffer

hit

cost-based

amount to

spending

consideration

money

be extravagant with

be used up

dissipate

principal

harm

be priced at

be valued

be expensive

overheads

tab

check

run

advantage

benefit

fruit

profit

recompense

remuneration

return

reward

fine

forfeit

credit

honor

honour

quotation

magnitude

quantity

titer

titre

valuation

freight

insurance

capitalized cost

final cost

self-cost

expend

charges

worn out

consumption

market price

rent

coastline

seaside

defend

take

lettuce

terms

aby

abye

foot

pay back

pay off

pay out

pay up

pick

put up

remit

set back

settle

sale

set a price

eat up

mean

duty

fees

obligation

responsibility

wasteful

surcharge

costly

exy

high-priced

loved

pricey

spendy

legal costs

costage

salary

when

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒst/

Etymology

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