"at cost" meaning in English

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          "text": "I will sell you the apples at cost.",
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          "ref": "1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., published 1980, →OCLC, page 9",
          "text": "It is no part of my purpose to make gain from this work. I had hoped to publish it in permanent form and distribute it among my friends as a present but it has grown to such proportions that that will not be practicable and I do hope that I maye be able to sell enough copies at about cost to materially assist in the publication.",
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        "At the purchasing price; without any markup."
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        "(business) At the purchasing price; without any markup."
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          "word": "come at a cost"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "at the original price",
          "word": "sisäänostohintaan"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "at the original price",
          "word": "à prix coûtant"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "at the original price",
          "word": "po kosztach"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "at the original price",
          "word": "sa puhunan"
        }
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  "word": "at cost"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "at the original price",
      "word": "sisäänostohintaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "at the original price",
      "word": "à prix coûtant"
    },
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      "sense": "at the original price",
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      "sense": "at the original price",
      "word": "sa puhunan"
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  "word": "at cost"
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