Cost

Etymology
From coster: (modern: coûter:).

Noun

 * 1) Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
 * The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
 * We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankrupcy.
 * The average cost of a new house is twice as much as t was 20 years ago.
 * 1) A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
 * There were many costs to the development project, the least of all was the financial aspect.
 * If you train all the time, there will be a few costs such as a lack of free time.

Derived terms

 * appraisal cost
 * at all costs
 * at cost
 * carbon cost
 * cost and freight
 * cost avoidance
 * cost-benefit
 * cost benefit analysis
 * cost center
 * cost control
 * cost cutting
 * cost-effective
 * cost-efficient
 * cost function
 * costless
 * costly
 * cost objective
 * cost of living


 * cost of sales
 * cost overrun
 * cost per avalable seat mile
 * cost price
 * cost-push
 * design to cost
 * flotation cost
 * landed cost
 * low-cost
 * marginal cost
 * opportunity cost
 * private cost
 * sunk cost
 * unexpired cost
 * unit cost
 * variable cost

Verb

 * 1) To incur a charge, a price.
 * This shirt costs $50, while this is cheaper at only $30.
 * It will cost you a lot of money to take a round-the-world trip.
 * Entry to the museums used to be free, but now it costs 5 pounds.
 * 1) To cause something to be lost.
 * Trying to rescue the man from the frozen lake cost me my health.
 * 1) To calculate or estimate a value.

Derived terms

 * cost an arm and a leg
 * cost a pretty penny
 * cost the earth
 * how much does it cost

Adjectives
trifling; nominal; moderate; inflated; minimum; enormous; appalling; excessive; prodigious; huge; average; comparative; fearful; spiritual; low; relative; ultimate; superfluous; prevailing; exorbitant; administrative; prime; inevitable; extra; classical; operating; additional; insignificant; evident; initial; proper; increasing; outrageous ; haulage; aggregate.

Verbs
absorb—; avoid—; bear—; calculate— defray—; forfeit—; heighten—; incur— maintain—; omit—; prate about—; rate— reckon—; shave—; shoulder—; spare— whittle down—; —astounds; —piles up '—soars; —varies; recoup—.

Thesaurus
afford, amount, amount to, bereavement, bring, bring in, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charge, charges, come to, come up to, cost of living, cost out, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, direct costs, disbursals, disburse, dispossession, distributed costs, divestment, expend, expenditure, expense, expense account, expenses, fetch, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, fork out, general expenses, get, go through, incur costs, indirect costs, injury, invest, labor costs, lay out, liabilities, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, material costs, mount up to, open the purse, operating costs, operating expense, outlay, overhead, pay, pay out, payment, perdition, price, price tag, prime cost, privation, put out, rate, replacement cost, robbery, ruin, run into, run through, run to, sacrifice, schedule, score, sell for, set one back, shell out, sink money in, spend, splurge, spoliation, squander, stripping, swindle sheet, tab, taking away, tariff, throw money around, total loss, total up to, unit cost

Noun

 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: coût.
 * German:
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Hebrew: עלות ('alut)
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latvian: maksa
 * Novial: kosto
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, себестоимость, , затраты, расходы
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian: загуби
 * Chinese: (dàijìa)
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: coût.
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 代償


 * Latvian: maksa
 * Novial: kosto
 * Polish:
 * Russian: издержки, затраты,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * : biaya, ongkos
 * : custo

Verb

 * Arabic: ساوى
 * Basque: kostatu
 * Bulgarian: струвам
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κοστίζω [ko̞ˈstizo̞] (means also "to cause damage or distress"), στοιχίζω [stiˈçizo̞] (means also "to inflict" and "to align"), τιμώμαι [tiˈmo̞me̞], κάνω [ˈkano̞] [colloquial (has a huge number of meanings, one of them is "to cost")]


 * Indonesian: menghabiskan biaya
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 費やす (ついやす, tsuiyasu),
 * Kannada:
 * Latvian: maksāt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * cots, COTS
 * scot, Scot

Noun

 * 1) charge

Etymology
from. Akin to Old Saxon koston:, koston: (German kosten:), Icelandic kosta:,  𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃:, Old English cystan:, Old English cyst:, ceosan:. More at choose.

Noun

 * 1) option, choice; possibility
 * 2) condition, manner, way
 * þæs costes þe (on the condition that)

Adjective

 * 1) chosen, choice
 * 2) tried, proven; excellent

Noun

 * 1) expense
 * 1) expense