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Cost   /kɑst/  /kɔst/   Listen
Cost

noun
1.
The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
2.
The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold).  Synonyms: monetary value, price.  "He puts a high price on his services" , "He couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
3.
Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something.  Synonyms: price, toll.  "The price of success is hard work" , "What price glory?"
verb
(past & past part. costed; pres. part. costing)
1.
Be priced at.  Synonym: be.
2.
Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.



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"Cost" Quotes from Famous Books



... lock that door before getting into bed, however much brandy he might have drunk overnight. What was the meaning of it? At last a light, got from the smouldering kitchen fire, revealed the hideous truth—his room was empty, the cherished mare gone! The door (as he had found to his cost) stood wide open; along the floor were carefully spread his blankets, and over them no doubt the mare had been led out without making noise sufficient to awaken even a light sleeper, let alone one whose potations had been deep ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang
... once,' said Dolores, who thought she would now establish her pre-eminence at the cost of any amount ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge
... had been happy before. Nay, then, she sets more store by the few nick-nacks Julius has given her than all I have bought her for twenty years. When yonder last bracelet came, she went on as if she had never seen aught of the kind in all her born days. Yet I have bought her one or two that cost more money, and happen more love, than ...
— The Squire of Sandal-Side - A Pastoral Romance • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... triumphed for a time. In the war that was raging La Bourdonnais saw his opportunity. He determined to anticipate Dupleix in beginning hostilities against the English in India. He set sail from the island of Bourbon with a fleet of nine vessels which he had equipped, at his proper cost, and an {259} army of some three thousand men, which included a large proportion of negroes. After a successful engagement with the ships of war under the command of Admiral Burnett, outside Madras, La Bourdonnais disembarked, besieged Madras, and compelled the town to capitulate. ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy
... Rev. James A. Herod, of Abbeville, La., is very interesting. He came from Arkansas to New Orleans to enter Straight University. He had been told that he could obtain an education there at very moderate cost by working for the institution. When he arrived he inquired for "the boss," being ignorant of the proper appellation of the head of the school. He was admitted as a student and remained long enough to complete the normal course and also ...
— The American Missionary -- Volume 54, No. 4, October, 1900 • Various


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