cost
See also: Cost
cost - English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA: /ˈkɔst/
Verb
cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
- It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
Usage notes
The past tense and past participle is cost in the sense of "this computer cost me £600", but costed in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was costed at $1 million."
Derived terms
Translations
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Noun
cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
- We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
- The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
- Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.
- The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.
Hyponyms
- accounting cost
- after-cost
- appraisal cost
- at the cost of
- carbon cost
- closing cost
- come at a cost
- contingency cost
- cost-benefit analysis
- cost-book
- cost-conscious
- cost-effectiveness
- cost-push inflation
- cost dear
- cost mark
- cost of goods sold
- cost oil
- direct cost
- dollar cost averaging
- fixed cost
- flotation cost
- flyaway cost
- indirect cost
- landed cost
- low cost carrier
- marginal cost
- marginal cost of capital
- menu cost
- negative cost
- opportunity cost
- prime cost
- private cost
- should-cost
- sunk cost
- ultra low cost carrier
- unexpired cost
- unit cost
- variable cost
- weighted-average cost of capital
- wellhead cost
Derived terms
- cost-benefit
- cost-cutting, cost cutting
- cost-effective
- cost-efficient
- cost-push
- cost-saving, cost saving
- cost function
- costless
- costly
- high-cost
- low-cost
Related terms
- at cost
- cost and freight
- cost avoidance
- cost benefit analysis
- cost center
- cost centre
- cost containment
- cost control
- cost cutting
- cost objective
- cost of business
- cost of doing business
- cost of living
- cost of money
- cost of sales
- cost overrun
- cost per available seat mile
- cost price
- design to cost
Translations
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Noun
cost (plural costs)
- (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Derived terms
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Noun
cost (plural costs)
Anagrams
cost - Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈkɔst/
Noun
cost m (plural costs or costos)
Derived terms
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Noun
cost m (uncountable)
cost - Manx
Noun
cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)
- charge (monetary)
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cost - Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kost/
Noun
cost m
Declension
Adjective
cost
Declension
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cost | cost | cost |
| Accusative | costne | coste | cost |
| Genitive | costes | costre | costes |
| Dative | costum | costre | costum |
| Instrumental | coste | costre | coste |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | coste | costa, coste | cost |
| Accusative | coste | costa, coste | cost |
| Genitive | costra | costra | costra |
| Dative | costum | costum | costum |
| Instrumental | costum | costum | costum |
cost - Old French
Noun
cost m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost)
- cost; financial outlay
Related terms
cost - Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA: [kost]
Verb
cost
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of costa
Noun
cost n (uncountable)
Declension
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) cost | costul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) cost | costului |
| vocative | costule | |
cost - Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA: /koːsd/, [kʰoːst]
- (South Wales) IPA: /kɔsd/, [kʰɔst]
Noun
cost m or f (plural costau)
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cost | gost | nghost | chost |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||