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Definitions for Cost

[1] the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
[2] an outlay or expenditure of money, time, labor, trouble, etc.: What will the cost be to me?
[3] a sacrifice, loss, or penalty: to work at the cost of one's health.
[4] costs, Law . money allowed to a successful party in a lawsuit in compensation for legal expenses incurred, chargeable to the unsuccessful party. money due to a court or one of its officers for services in a cause.
[5] to require the payment of (money or something else of value) in an exchange: That camera cost $200.
[6] to result in or entail the loss of: Carelessness costs lives.
[7] to cause to lose or suffer: The accident cost her a broken leg.
[8] to entail (effort or inconvenience): Courtesy costs little.
[9] to cause to pay or sacrifice: That request will cost us two weeks' extra work.
[10] to estimate or determine the cost of (manufactured articles, new processes, etc.): We have costed the manufacture of each item.
[11] to estimate or determine costs, as of manufacturing something.
[12] cost out , to calculate the cost of (a project, product, etc.) in advance: The firm that hired him just costed out a major construction project last month.
[13] at all costs , regardless of the effort involved; by any means necessary: The stolen painting must be recovered at all costs. Also at any cost.
[14] variant of costo- before a vowel: costate.
[15] the price paid or required for acquiring, producing, or maintaining something, usually measured in money, time, or energy; expense or expenditure; outlay
[16] suffering or sacrifice; loss; penalty count the cost to your health ; I know to my cost
[17] the amount paid for a commodity by its seller to sell at cost (as modifier ) the cost price
[18] (plural) law the expenses of judicial proceedings
[19] at any cost or at all costs regardless of cost or sacrifice involved
[20] at the cost of at the expense of losing
[21] (tr) to be obtained or obtainable in exchange for (money or something equivalent); be priced at the ride cost one pound
[22] to cause or require the expenditure, loss, or sacrifice (of) the accident cost him dearly
[23] to estimate the cost of (a product, process, etc) for the purposes of pricing, budgeting, control, etc

Words related to Cost

worth, outlay, figure, price, rate, value, damage, amount, expenditure, charge, tariff, payment, loss, expense, require, yield, take, lose, expect, hurt

Words nearby Cost

cossack, cossack hat, cossacks, cosset, cossie, cost, cost center, cost centre, cost keeper, cost ledger, cost of living

Origin of Cost

1200–50; (v.) Middle English costen < Anglo-French, Old French co(u)ster < Latin constāre to stand together, be settled, cost; cf. constant; (noun) Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French, noun derivative of the v.

Other words from Cost

cost·less , adjective
cost·less·ness , noun
re·cost , verb (used with object), re·cost, re·cost·ing.

Word origin for Cost

C13: from Old French (n), from coster to cost, from Latin constāre to stand at, cost, from stāre to stand

Synonyms for Cost

amount, charge, damage, expenditure, figure, outlay, payment, price, price tag, rate, tariff, value, worth, bite, disbursement, dues, line, nick, nut, score, setback, squeeze, tab, ticket, toll, arm and a leg, bad news, bottom dollar, bottom line, top dollar