Definitions for costs
costs

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1. costs(noun)

   pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation

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1. costs

   Plural noun and verb form of the word cost.

   The operational costs were added to the budget to ensure an accurate invitation to tender was submitted.

   Submitted by MaryC on May 18, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'costs' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #813

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'costs' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1134

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of costs in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of costs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of costs in a Sentence

1. Shingo Sakai:

   We have to keep our dining quality, and at the same time we need to keep our reputation by following the government order, i have to think about cutting costs to keep the company alive. Theres no place to cut costs because I did that for the last six months. Theres no room for that.

2. Daniel Loeb:

   I think the willingness of a number of corporations to cut costs and return capital, and improve and sharpen their strategy and focus on the things they are good at, create a very good backdrop for investors like us, sometimes there are opportunities for us to help the process along a little bit, like we did with Sony and Fanuc.

3. Andrew Walther:

   It costs $2,000 to make an ISIS-damaged home habitable and move a family back in, our goal is to get several hundred families rehoused by the end of August.

4. Leah Blomberg:

   If you're in a hospital bed, you're not making any money anyway. In fact, you're putting yourself in further debt, if you're dead, it doesn't matter anyway -- you're not going to be able to provide for your family. You're going to have your medical bills, your funeral costs, you're going to be leaving that for them on top of it all.

5. Kayla Montgomery:

   I tried to pretend I wasn't sick or anything -- I wanted to go on with life as normal as possible, nobody at school knew, and we were not allowed to talk about it at home. I just avoided it at all costs, and that actually made it a lot harder.

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