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as a verb: - 1
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cost
noun
1 cost
The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
Roget 812a:
worth,
rate,
value,
intrinsic value,
quality;
par value.
[estimated value]
valuation,
appraisal,
assessment,
appraisement.
[value as estimated in a market]
price current,
market price,
quotation;
fair price,
going price;
what it will fetch
etc.
v.;
what the market will bear.
money's worth;
penny's worth
&c.;
worth.
cost
(price)
812.
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Dutch: uitgaven, onkosten, kosten
Polish: sumpt
2 cost
The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold):
— He couldn't calculate the cost of the collection.
synonyms: monetary value, price.
Polish: świadczenie
3 cost
Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something:
— The cost in human life was enormous.
synonyms: price, toll.
Roget 812:
price,
amount,
cost,
expense,
prime cost,
charge,
figure;
demand,
damage;
fare,
hire,
wages
etc.
(remuneration)
973;
value
etc.
812.1.
dues,
duty,
toll,
tax,
impost,
cess†,
sess†,
tallage†,
levy;
abkari†;
capitation tax,
poll tax;
doomage [U.S.],
likin†;
gabel†,
gabelle†;
gavel,
octroi†,
custom,
excise,
assessment,
benevolence,
tithe,
tenths,
exactment†,
ransom,
salvage,
tariff;
brokerage,
wharfage,
freightage.
bill
etc.
(account)
811;
shot.
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Dutch: prijs
verb
1 cost
Be priced at:
— These shoes cost $100.
synonym: be.
Roget 812:
bear a price,
set a price,
fix a price;
appraise,
assess,
doom [U.S.],
price,
charge,
demand,
ask,
require,
exact,
run up;
distrain;
run up a bill
etc.
(debt)
806;
have one's price;
liquidate.
amount to,
come to,
mount up to;
stand one in.
fetch,
sell for,
cost,
bring in,
yield,
afford.
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Dutch: bedragen, belopen, komen, kosten, maken, worden, zijn
2 cost
Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.
Moby thesaurus: afford, amount, amount to, bereavement, bring, bring in, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charge, charges, come to, come up to, cost of living, cost out, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, direct costs, disbursals, disburse, dispossession, distributed costs, divestment, expend, expenditure, expense, expense account, expenses, fetch, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, fork out, general expenses, get, go through, incur costs, indirect costs, injury, invest, labor costs, lay out, liabilities, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, material costs, mount up to, open the purse, operating costs, operating expense, outlay, overhead, pay, pay out, payment, perdition, price, price tag, prime cost, privation, put out, rate, replacement cost, robbery, ruin, run into, run through, run to, sacrifice, schedule, score, sell for, set one back, shell out, sink money in, spend, splurge, spoliation, squander, stripping, swindle sheet, tab, taking away, tariff, throw money around, total loss, total up to, unit cost ... show more.
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