Antonyms for cost

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : kawst, kost

Phonetic Transcription : kɔst, kɒst

Definition of cost

Origin : c.1200, from Old French cost (12c., Modern French coût) "cost, outlay, expenditure; hardship, trouble," from Vulgar Latin *costare, from Latin constare, literally "to stand at" (or with), with a wide range of figurative senses including "to cost." The idiom is the same one used in Modern English when someone says something "stands at X dollars" to mean it sells for X dollars. The Latin word is from com- "with" (see com-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).

noun expense; price paid
noun penalty, sacrifice
verb command a price of
verb harm; exact a penalty

Example sentences :

It'll cost him more than he'll ever get from my miserly uncle to repair it.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

But the result was achieved only at a cost which the little party could ill sustain.
Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest

It was easily done, and without any cost or sacrifice of principle.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

We wish nothing that can be had only at the cost of another people.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

I'll take no money out of a thing that cost Allister's death.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

But as to doing what he wills with a word—see what it cost him to redeem the world!
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

But there are alleys, and alleys, as the venturesome lady found to her cost.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

It can cost me nothing except her good opinion, which I can afford.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

But terrible indeed was the cost at which the last had been repelled.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

(b) How does meat compare in cost with the other daily foods?
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Synonyms for cost

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