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cost verb [ kɒst ]

• (of an object or action) require the payment of (a specified sum of money) before it can be acquired or done.
• "each issue of the magazine costs £1"
Similar: be priced at, sell for, be valued at, fetch, come to, amount to, be, set someone back, go for, knock someone back,
• estimate the price of.
• "it is their job to plan and cost a media schedule for the campaign"
Similar: value, price, put a price on, put a value on, put a figure on, estimate the cost of, estimate the price of, evaluate,

cost noun

• an amount that has to be paid or spent to buy or obtain something.
• "we are able to cover the cost of the event"
Similar: price, asking price, market price, selling price, fee, tariff, fare, toll, levy, charge, hire charge, rental, value, face value, valuation, quotation, rate, worth, damage,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French coust (noun), couster (verb), based on Latin constare ‘stand firm, stand at a price’.

at all costs

• regardless of the price to be paid or the effort needed.
"he was anxious to avoid war at all costs"

at cost

• at cost price; without profit to the seller.

cost someone dear

• involve someone in a serious loss or a heavy penalty.
"a couple of individual errors cost us dear"

to someone's cost

• with loss or disadvantage to someone.
"without programmes to play on it, the cleverest machine is useless—as some hardware manufacturers already know to their cost"



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