cost | Lernwerd

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1.To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
- It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
2.To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
3.To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."
4.To calculate or estimate a price.
- I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.

1.Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
- The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
- The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.
2.A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
- The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.
- Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.
- We simply do not have the option to return to a lower economic level, at least not a rational option. Peer polity competition drives increased complexity and resource consumption regardless of costs, human or ecological.
3.Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
4.A cottise.

Common· #579

From Middle English costen

From Old French coster, couster (“to cost”)

From Medieval Latin cōstō

From Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).