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Definition: Meaning of, cost in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / kɒst /

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cost costs
  1. [countable] the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy, do, or produce something
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  2. costs [plural] the money that you must regularly spend in order to run a business, a home, a car etc
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  3. costs [plural] also court costs the money that you must pay to lawyers etc if you are involved in a legal case in court, especially if you are found guilty
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  4. [uncountable and countable] something that you lose, give away, damage etc in order to achieve something
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  5. [singular] especially American English the price that someone pays for something that they are going to sell [=  cost price]
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  6. know/find out/learn etc something to your cost to realize something is true because you have had a very unpleasant experience
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
cost cost cost
Present Participle Third Person Singular
costing costs
  1. past tense and past participle cost [linking verb] to have a particular price
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  2. cost somebody their job/life/marriage etc when something makes you lose your job etc
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  3. cost somebody dear/dearly to make someone suffer a lot or to lose something important
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  4. past tense and past participle costed [transitive usually passive] to calculate the total price of something or decide how much the price of something should be
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  5. it will cost you spoken used to say that something will be expensive
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cost used in phrases

  • at any cost (adverb)
    1. regardless of the cost involved
  • average cost (noun)
    1. or produced total cost for all units bought divided by the number of units
  • borrowing cost (noun)
    1. the cost of borrowing something
  • capital cost (noun)
    1. the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk
  • carrying cost (noun)
    1. the opportunity cost of unproductive assets; the expense incurred by ownership
  • cost accountant (noun)
    1. a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
  • cost accounting (noun)
    1. keeping account of the costs of items in production
  • cost analysis (noun)
    1. breaking down the costs of some operation and reporting on each factor separately
  • cost cutting (noun)
    1. the act of cutting costs
  • cost increase (noun)
    1. an increase in cost
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