Cost

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1. Noun

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

2. Noun

See Cottise.

3. Verb form

of Cost

4. Verb

To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

5. Verb

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

6. Verb

The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.

7. Verb

Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

8. Verb

Expenses incurred in litigation.

9. Noun

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
Vocabulary classified under Economics

10. Noun

value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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