noun. An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.

noun. The expenditure of something, such as time or labor, necessary for the attainment of a goal.

noun. Charges incurred in bringing litigation, including court fees and charges that may be payable by the losing party, but usually not including attorneys' fees.

intransitive verb. To require a specified payment, expenditure, effort, or loss.

intransitive verb. To have as a price.

intransitive verb. To cause to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.

intransitive verb. To estimate or determine the cost of.

idiom. (at all costs) Regardless of the expense or effort involved; by any means.

noun. Manner; way and means.

noun. Quality; condition; property; value; worth.

noun. Costmary.

To require the expenditure of (something valuable) in exchange, purchase, or payment; be of the price of; be acquired in return for: as, it cost five dollars.

In general, to require (as a thing or result to be desired) an expenditure of any specified thing, as time or labor; be done or acquired at the expense of, as of pain or loss; occasion or bring on (especially something evil) as a result.

noun. The equivalent or price given for a thing or service exchanged, purchased, or paid for; the amount paid, or engaged to be paid, for some thing or some service: as, the cost of a suit of clothes; the cost of building a house.

noun. That which is expended; outlay of any kind, as of money, labor, time, or trouble; expense or expenditure in general; specifically, great expense: as, the work was done at public cost.

noun. plural In law: The sums fixed by law or allowed by the court for charges in a suit, awarded usually against the party losing, and in favor of the party prevailing or his attorney.

noun. The sum which the law allows to the attorney, to be paid by his client.

noun. Synonyms and Expense, Worth, etc. See price.

noun. A rib or side.

noun. In heraldry, same as cottise.

noun. A rib; a side; a region or coast.

noun. See Cottise.

transitive verb. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of.

transitive verb. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

transitive verb. to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.

noun. The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.

noun. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

noun. Expenses incurred in litigation.

noun. See under Bill.

noun. without outlay or expense.

verb. To incur a charge, a price.

verb. To cause something to be lost.

verb. To calculate or estimate a value.

noun. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

noun. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

noun. Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.

noun. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

noun. the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)

noun. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

verb. require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice

verb. be priced at

noun. the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

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