Synonyms for cost
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : kawst, kost |
| Phonetic Transcription : kɔst, kɒst |
Top 10 synonyms for cost Other synonyms for the word cost
- amount to be asked
- arm and a leg
- bad news
- be demanded
- be given
- be marked at
- be needed
- be paid
- be priced at
- be received
- be valued at
- be worth
- bite
- bottom dollar
- bottom line
- deprivation
- detriment
- disbursement
- do disservice to
- dues
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- infuriate
- injury
- line
- loss
- mount up
- move back
- necessitate
- nick
- nut
- obligate
- outlay
- payment
- price
- price tag
- rap
- rate
- require
- score
- sell at
- sell for
- set back
- setback
- squeeze
- suffering
- tab
- take
- tariff
- ticket
- to the tune of
- toll
- top dollar
- value
- worth
- yield
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for cost
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