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      cost
      noun
      Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
      A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
      Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
      (heraldry) A cottise.
      A surname.
      (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
      (obsolete) A rib; a side.
      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.
      (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
      To calculate or estimate a price.
      Roots
      comco- · Latin · together, withstarest- · Latin · to stand
      Synonyms for cost
      pricenexpensenoutlaynexpenditurenpayvchargenaffordvtariffn
      Words related to cost
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