"a todo custo" meaning in Portuguese

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  "etymology_text": "From a (“at”) + todo (“every”) + custo (“cost, price”), perhaps a calque of English at all costs (literally “at all conditions”, “no matter the possibilities”), where cost refers not to price but to the obsolete sense of “manner”, “option”, “possibility”, being related to choice and (distantly, via Proto-Indo-European) also to Portuguese gosto.",
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    {
      "form": "a todo o custo",
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      "form": "a qualquer custo",
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        "at all costs; whatever it takes"
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          "whatever it takes"
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          "word": "custe o que custar"
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      "ipa": "/a ˈto.du ˈkus.tu/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/a ˈto.du ˈkus.tu/",
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        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a ˈto.du ˈkuʃ.tu/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a ˈto.do ˈkus.to/",
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        "Southern-Brazil"
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  "word": "a todo custo"
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        "at all costs; whatever it takes"
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        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
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  "word": "a todo custo"
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