Word Finder - cost

definition

To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

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It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.

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To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.

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Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.

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To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

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To calculate or estimate a price.

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I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.

It must have cost a fortune!

That must have cost you a pretty penny.

It would cost you a fortune.

It will cost you something.

It would cost more than seven dollars to have them dry cleaned and pressed.

A good book would sometimes cost as much as a good house.

I am simply curious at what cost you are willing to pursue your goal.

This pan will cost a dollar.

Do you have any idea how much this gym cost to set up?

Ultimately it had cost them a child and her ability to have more.

It had 4K of memory and cost my parents about $200.

I hope it didn't cost you too much.

It would only cost her Xander.

Pierre did not know why, but since Karataev had begun to grow weaker it had cost him an effort to go near him.

This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.

Cynthia raised her eyebrows as he asked, "Guess how much they cost me?"

That would necessitate raising the cost of the tours for guests.

The cost of their imported food doubles, and I guarantee you the foreign-owned factory won't double wages as a result.

A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl and telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear.

The clever cost savings idea of sleeping in the car didn't sound so safe right now.

I mean, there would be the cost of drapes, rugs, pictures and other things.

On the 13th of July 1447 he was consecrated in Eton church, when the warden and fellows and others of his old college gave him a horse at a cost of £6, 13s.

And I don't intend that the lesson she has learned at the cost of so much pain and trouble shall be unlearned.

It appears from the above estimate, that my food alone cost me in money about twenty-seven cents a week.

But those things cost big bucks.

What would it have cost him to hold out for another two days?

I didn't have much of an idea about the cost of raising children then, either.

It covers 2 acres of ground and cost $2,000,000.

But what if that energy cost fell to zero?

Looking at his cold face, as he sat like a stern schoolmaster who was prepared to wait awhile for an answer, Pierre felt that every instant of delay might cost him his life; but he did not know what to say.

If I didn't know you better, I'd swear you didn't think your mother was worth the cost.

Even his lingering doubt about the real cost of her deals with Darkyn didn't extend to the question of whether or not he was meant to be with the woman in his arms.

Everything comes at a cost, Gabriel, which you know.

He seemed to be the only one on the Council who truly cared about upholding the balance between good and evil, no matter what the cost.

Her stupidity had cost a life this time – the life of a dear friend.

The cost of new buildings in 1919 was $20,538,450.

The signing of the peace of Teschen, which averted a great war with Prussia, on the 13th of May 1779, was the last great act of her reign, and so Maria Theresa judged it to be in a letter to Prince Kaunitz; she said that she had now finished her life's journey and could sing a for she had secured the repose of her people at whatever cost to herself.

In October, on his return to Roye, he founded the Correspondant Picard, the violent character of which cost him another arrest.

The manufacturers who have adopted this system assert that, as compared with other methods, not only do they obtain an increased yield of sugar of better quality, but that they do so at a less cost for running their machines and with a reduced expenditure in sugar and " clairce."

But his orders were imperative, and the 4th brigade was already moving off and had to be supported at any cost.

The chief building in Des Moines is the State Capitol, erected at a cost of about $3,000,000; other important buildings are the public library (containing, in 1908, 40,415 volumes), the court house, the post office, the Iowa State Historical building, a large auditorium and two hospitals.

A few scattered units managed to escape, and the left wing retreated unmolested, but at the cost of about 3000 casualties the Allies inflicted a loss of 6000 killed and wounded and 9000 prisoners on the enemy, who were, moreover, so shaken that they never recovered their confidence to the end of the campaign.

In 1900 a stone dam (1020 ft.), said to be the second largest in New England, was completed at a cost of about $750,000.

At the cost of only Boa casualties it had penetrated some 31 m.

Opposite Lewes is the Delaware Breakwater (begun in 1818 and completed in 1869, at a cost of more than $2,000,000), which forms a harbour 16 ft.

At the close of 1857, £8,000,000, of which the breakwater cost over £2,500,000, had been expended on the works; in 1889 a further sum of £680,000 was voted by the Chamber of Deputies for the improvement of the port.

Some of the earlier sinkings of this kind, when pumps had to be depended on for keeping down the water, were conducted at great cost, as, for instance, at South Hetton, and more recently Ryhope, near Sunderland, through the magnesian limestone of Durham.

This system presents the greatest advantages in point of economy of driving power, especially where the gradients are variable, but is expensive in first cost, and is not well suited for curves, and branch roads cannot be worked continuously, as a fresh set of pulleys worked by bevel gearing is required for each branch.

Steam at high pressure exhausting into the atmosphere is still commonly used, but the great power required for raising heavy loads from deep pits at high speeds has brought the question of fuel economy into prominence, and more economical types of the two-cylinder tandem compound class with high initial steam pressure, superheating and condensing, have come in to some extent where the amount of work to be done is sufficient to justify their high initial cost.

For cities of above 8000 inhabitants (for which alone comparative statistics are annually available), in 1902-1903 the ratio of average attendance to school enrolment, the average number of days' attendance of each pupil enrolled, and the value of school property per capita of pupils in average attendance were higher than in any other state; the average length of the school term was slightly exceeded in eight states; and the total cost of the schools per capita of pupils in average attendance ($39.05) was exceeded in six other states.