cost

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cost

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.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

(transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.

the packaging of home-delivered products now accounts for 30% of the solid rubbish the US generates annually, and the cardboard alone costs 1bn trees.

2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:

though it cost me ten nights' watchings

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

(transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.

to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.

I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.

That's going to cost you!

(transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.

en-verb

cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)

costs (present singular third-person)
costing (participle present)
cost (participle past)
cost (past)
costed (participle past)
costed (past)

κοστίζω

means also "to cause damage or distress"

κάνω [colloquial]

has a huge number of meanings, one of them is "to cost"

ราคา

a noun, may be used to express the English verb "to cost" in certain uses

From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).


cost

The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.

We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.

The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.

The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.

A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

en-noun

cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)

From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.


cost

(obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.

Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).
Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.


cost

betwixt the costs of a ship

1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.


cost

head

cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)

cost (genitive singular)
costyn (plural)


cost

þæs costes þe

cost (nominative singular)
costas (nominative plural)
cost (accusative singular)
costas (accusative plural)
costes (genitive singular)
costa (genitive plural)
coste (dative singular)
costum (dative plural)

From Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”).
Akin to Old Saxon kostōn (“to try, tempt”), Old High German kostōn (“to taste, test, try by tasting”) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (“to try, tempt”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (kustus, “test”), Old English cystan (“to spend, get the value of, procure”), Old English cyst (“proof, test, trial; choice”), ċēosan (“to choose”).


cost

cost (masculine nominative singular)
cost (feminine nominative singular)
cost (neuter nominative singular)
costne (accusative masculine singular)
coste (accusative feminine singular)
cost (accusative neuter singular)
costes (genitive masculine singular)
costre (feminine genitive singular)
costes (genitive neuter singular)
costum (dative masculine singular)
costre (dative feminine singular)
costum (dative neuter singular)
coste (instrumental masculine singular)
costre (feminine instrumental singular)
coste (instrumental neuter singular)
coste (masculine nominative plural)
costa (feminine nominative plural)
coste (feminine nominative plural)
cost (neuter nominative plural)
coste (accusative masculine plural)
costa (accusative feminine plural)
coste (accusative feminine plural)
cost (accusative neuter plural)
costra (genitive masculine plural)
costra (feminine genitive plural)
costra (genitive neuter plural)
costum (dative masculine plural)
costum (dative feminine plural)
costum (dative neuter plural)
costum (instrumental masculine plural)
costum (feminine instrumental plural)
costum (instrumental neuter plural)
costa (masculine nominative singular)
coste (feminine nominative singular)
coste (neuter nominative singular)
costan (accusative masculine singular)
costan (accusative feminine singular)
coste (accusative neuter singular)
costan (genitive masculine singular)
costan (feminine genitive singular)
costan (genitive neuter singular)
costan (dative masculine singular)
costan (dative feminine singular)
costan (dative neuter singular)
costan (instrumental masculine singular)
costan (feminine instrumental singular)
costan (instrumental neuter singular)
costan (masculine nominative plural)
costan (feminine nominative plural)
costan (neuter nominative plural)
costan (accusative masculine plural)
costan (accusative feminine plural)
costan (accusative neuter plural)
costra (genitive masculine plural)
costena (genitive masculine plural)
costra (feminine genitive plural)
costena (feminine genitive plural)
costra (genitive neuter plural)
costena (genitive neuter plural)
costum (dative masculine plural)
costum (dative feminine plural)
costum (dative neuter plural)
costum (instrumental masculine plural)
costum (feminine instrumental plural)
costum (instrumental neuter plural)


cost

fro-noun

cost oblique singular, m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost)

cost oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
coz (oblique plural)
cotz (oblique plural)
coz (nominative singular)
cotz (nominative singular)
cost (nominative plural)

From Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (at a price)”).


cost

first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of costa


cost

cost (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un cost (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
costul (accusative definite nominative singular)
cost (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui cost (dative genitive indefinite singular)
costului (dative definite genitive singular)
costule (singular vocative)


cost

costau (plural)
cost (mutation mutation-radical)
gost (mutation mutation-soft)
nghost (mutation mutation-nasal)
chost (mutation mutation-aspirate)