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cost

Pronunciation: /kɒst/

The English word “cost” has 11 meanings listed here.

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. 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.
  3. Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
  4. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
  5. A rib; a side.
  6. A cottise.

Etymology

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

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