cost
pronunciation
How to pronounce cost in British English:
UK [kɒst]
How to pronounce cost in American English:
US [kɔːst]
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- 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)
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
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- Verb:
- be priced at
- require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
Word Origin
- cost
- cost: [13] In Latin, something that cost a particular price literally ‘stood at or with’ that price. The Latin verb constāre was formed from the prefix com- ‘with’ and stāre ‘stand’ (a relative of English stand). In Vulgar Latin this became *costāre, which passed into English via Old French coster (the derived noun arrived first, the verb a couple of decades later). The adjective costly is a 14th century formation.=> stand, statue
- cost (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old French cost (12c., Modern French coût) "cost, outlay, expenditure; hardship, trouble," from Vulgar Latin *costare, from Latin constare, literally "to stand at" (or with), with a wide range of figurative senses including "to cost." The idiom is the same one used in Modern English when someone says something "stands at X dollars" to mean it sells for X dollars. The Latin word is from com- "with" (see com-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).
- cost (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French coster (Modern French coûter) "to cost," from cost (see cost (n.)).
Example
- 1. The main hurdle is cost .
- 2. The main driver is cost .
- 3. Cost is also a factor .
- 4. The problem with ccs is the cost .
- 5. It says the expansion will cost $ 5.2 billion .