OTHER WORDS FOR cost
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Idioms about cost
at all costs, regardless of the effort involved; by any means necessary: The stolen painting must be recovered at all costs.Also at any cost.
Origin of cost
First recorded in 1200–50; (verb) Middle English costen, from Anglo-French, Old French co(u)ster, from Latin constāre “to stand together, be settled, cost”; cf. constant; (noun) Middle English, from Anglo-French, Old French, noun derivative of the verb
synonym study for cost
1. See price.
OTHER WORDS FROM cost
costless, adjectivecost·less·ness, nounre·cost, verb (used with object), re·cost, re·cost·ing.Other definitions for cost (2 of 2)
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How to use cost in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for cost
cost
/ (kɒst) /
noun
verb costs, costing or cost
Derived forms of cost
costless, adjectiveWord Origin for cost
C13: from Old French (n), from coster to cost, from Latin constāre to stand at, cost, from stāre to stand
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Other Idioms and Phrases with cost
cost
see arm and a leg, cost an; at all costs; pretty penny, cost a.
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