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Cost

noun

The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.

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"

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)

Be priced at. Synonym: be.

Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.

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"Cost" Quotes from Famous Books

... neighbours. The ladies, or patronesses, visited us from time to time, examined how we were taught, and saw that our clothes were clean. We lived happily enough, and were instructed to be thankful to those at whose cost we were educated. I was always the favourite of my mistress; she used to call me to read and show my copybook to all strangers, who never dismissed me without commendation, and very ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

... rage," he said. "If I'm willing to put up with it, I suppose you needn't cry out. All I meant was that when you tell me a thing is going to cost so much, I like to—well, in fact, I—like ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... 1499, Vincent Yannez Pinzon, who had sailed with Columbus in his first voyage of discovery, and his nephew Aries Pinzon, departed from the port of Palos with four well appointed ships, fitted out at their own cost, having a license from the king of Spain to prosecute discoveries in the new world, but with express orders not to touch anywhere that had been visited by Columbus. Going first to the islands of Cape de Verd, they passed ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II • Robert Kerr

... perhaps executed. Yet if I stop fighting I commit suicide as a great man and become a common one. How am I to escape the horns of this tragic dilemma? Victory I can guarantee: I am invincible. But the cost of victory is the demoralization, the depopulation, the ruin of the victors no less than of the vanquished. How am I to satisfy my genius by fighting until I die? that is ...

— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

... Arkwright did not like to ask him again to alter his plans; and he, having altered them once, was averse to change them again. So things went on till the mules and the boats had been hired, and things had gone so far that no change could then be made without much cost and trouble. ...

— Returning Home • Anthony Trollope

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