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Cost

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

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Ask 76% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Expenditure 76% connected

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

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Involve 76% connected

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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Necessitate 76% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Outgo 76% connected

To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.

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Outlay 76% connected

To lay out; to spread out; to display.

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Postulate 76% connected

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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Require 76% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Spending 76% connected

of Spend

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Value 76% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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Assessment 76% connected

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Damage 76% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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Disbursement 76% connected

The act of disbursing or paying out.

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Expense 76% connected

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

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marginal cost 76% connected

The extra cost of making one additional item.

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Opportunity cost 76% connected

What you give up by choosing one option instead of the next best option.

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Payment 76% connected

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

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Portage 76% connected

A sailor's wages when in port.

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Price 76% connected

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or…

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Ransom 76% connected

The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.

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Manner of action 1

Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Derivationally related 4

Be 74% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Be 74% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Price 74% connected

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Price 74% connected

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Be 92% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Price 92% connected

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Toll 92% connected

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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