1. (n.)cost the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything.
2. cost an outlay or expenditure of money, time, etc.
3. cost a sacrifice, loss, or penalty: to work at the cost of one's health.
4. cost costs, money awarded to a successful litigant for legal expenses, charged against the unsuccessful litigant.
5. (v.t.)cost to require the payment of (money or something else of value) in an exchange: That camera cost $200.
6. cost to entail the loss or injury of: Carelessness costs lives.
7. cost to entail (effort or inconvenience): Courtesy costs little.
8. cost to cause to pay or sacrifice: That request will cost us extra work.
9. cost to estimate or determine the cost of (manufactured articles, new processes, etc.).
10. (v.i.)cost to estimate or determine costs, as of manufacturing something.
Definition of 'cost'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)cost the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
2. (noun)monetary value, price, cost the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) "the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
3. (verb)price, cost, toll value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
4. (verb)cost, be be priced at "These shoes cost $100"
5. (verb)cost require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice "This mistake cost him his job"
1. (noun)cost the amount of money needed for sth The cost of housing has risen by 10%.; services provided at a cost of $800; the costs involved in running a business; the high cost of health care
2. cost cover the cost of provide payment for insurance that covers the cost of long hospital stays
3. cost the effort, suffering, or loss that doing sth involves the cost of freedom; The war continues at a cost of 1200 lives.
4. cost at all costs/at any cost even if sth extremely difficult, bad, dangerous, etc. must be done Avoid the busy highways at all costs.; athletes who are determined to win at any cost
5. cost costs legal expenses He was ordered to pay costs.
6. (verb)cost (of an object or activity) to have a particular price flowers that cost $10 a bunch; How much will it cost me to take the train?
7. cost cost a fortune to be very expensive
8. cost to require sb to give up sth important His decision almost cost him his life.; behavior that cost her her job
9. cost to calculate the price of sth a fully costed design proposal
Definition of 'cost'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)cost a rib; a side; a region or coast
2. (noun)cost see Cottise
3. cost of Cost
4. (verb)cost to require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life
5. (verb)cost to require to be borne or suffered; to cause
6. (verb)cost the amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit
7. (verb)cost loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering