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What (who) is cost - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
COST; The Cost; Costs (disambiguation); The Cost (disambiguation)

cost         
VALUE OF MONEY THAT HAS BEEN USED UP TO PRODUCE SOMETHING
Private cost; Costs of production; Associated cost; Time-consuming; Metabolic price; Metabolic cost; Cost (biology); Expensive; Expensiveness; Outlay; Cost estimates; Approval for Expenditure; AFE Approval for Expenditure; Authorization for Expenditure; Expend; Expendability; Approval for expenditure; Authorization for expenditure; Assessment of cost; Product costing; Financial cost; Costs
I
n.
1) to bear a cost; to pay costs; to spare no cost
2) to cut, reduce costs
3) to estimate; put, set a cost at (he put the cost at one hundred dollars)
4) court; direct; fixed; indirect; overhead costs (who will pay the court costs?)
5) a high cost (the high cost of energy)
6) a unit cost
7) at a certain cost (at any cost; at all costs; at the cost of his health; at a terrible cost; at no cost to the taxpayer)
II
v.
1) (O; may be used with one inanimate object) it cost us ten dollars; it cost ten dollars
2) (P; with an animate object) his blunder cost us dearly
3) (misc.) it costs (us) five thousand dollars a year to maintain this house
cost         
VALUE OF MONEY THAT HAS BEEN USED UP TO PRODUCE SOMETHING
Private cost; Costs of production; Associated cost; Time-consuming; Metabolic price; Metabolic cost; Cost (biology); Expensive; Expensiveness; Outlay; Cost estimates; Approval for Expenditure; AFE Approval for Expenditure; Authorization for Expenditure; Expend; Expendability; Approval for expenditure; Authorization for expenditure; Assessment of cost; Product costing; Financial cost; Costs
I. v. a.
Require to be paid or undergone, take away from.
II. n.
1.
Expense, charge, price, outlay.
2.
Costliness, preciousness, richness, sumptuousness, splendor.
3.
Loss, detriment, damage, pain, suffering.
Cost         
VALUE OF MONEY THAT HAS BEEN USED UP TO PRODUCE SOMETHING
Private cost; Costs of production; Associated cost; Time-consuming; Metabolic price; Metabolic cost; Cost (biology); Expensive; Expensiveness; Outlay; Cost estimates; Approval for Expenditure; AFE Approval for Expenditure; Authorization for Expenditure; Expend; Expendability; Approval for expenditure; Authorization for expenditure; Assessment of cost; Product costing; Financial cost; Costs
·noun A rib; a side; a region or coast.
II. Cost ·vt Expenses incurred in litigation.
III. Cost ·noun ·see Cottise.
IV. Cost ·Impf & ·p.p. of Cost.
V. Cost ·vt Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
VI. Cost ·vt To require to be borne or suffered; to Cause.
VII. Cost ·vt 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.
VIII. Cost ·vt 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; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

Wikipedia

Cost (disambiguation)

Cost is the value of money that has been used to produce something and is therefore no longer available.

Cost may also refer to:

Examples of use of cost
1. Omelets cost 70 rubles, extra ingredients cost 15 rubles each.
2. Thirty–minute boat rides cost $10, while gondolas cost more.
3. The school in Deh Hassan cost the German government $67,000, he noted, "the cost of a reasonably low–cost luxury car in Europe."
4. "The cost is aimed at being the perceived cost of motoring: the direct cost of fuel plus some of the operating costs.
5. But the cost of health care has about doubled, the cost of a college education is up, the cost of energy is up, the cost of housing is up.