[
UK
/kˈɒst/
]
[ US /ˈkɑst, ˈkɔst/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑst, ˈkɔst/ ]
VERB
-
require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
This mistake cost him his job -
be priced at
These shoes cost $100
NOUN
-
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 couldn't calculate the cost of the collection
he puts a high price on his services - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
-
value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
what price glory?
the price of success is hard work
the cost in human life was enormous
How To Use cost In A Sentence
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- A boa made from black water mink is worth about 50 dollars, a collarette about $100,00 and a coat reaching down to the hips would cost about $250,00. Black Beaver The Trapper
- You do an estimate, and then it might cost a little bit more when you actually do the job.
- Buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat from the sun to save on heating costs.
- If you accept that you have to do mass education - and, to keep costs low and for a lot of other reasons, I think that's not an unreasonable conclusion - you have to systematize it.
- A liquor pour cost of 18.3%, for example, means that it cost a little more than 18 cents to generate a dollar of liquor sales.
- Companies need to be able to handle surges, otherwise the cost of generating leads is wasted and prospective customers who cannot get through may get such a bad impression of the company that they do not bother calling back.
- Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower. Archive 2008-06-01
- The cost of repairing the fabric of the church was very high.
- The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
