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  1. cost | cost. if something costs a particular amount of money, you have to pay that amount in order to buy or have it: cost $1 million/£500,000, etc. Calls cost 60 cents per minute. cost sb $1 million/£500,00, etc. Deregulation allowed the company to fix electricity prices, costing consumers billions of dollars.

  2. Cost means a price that must be paid for something or a sacrifice. Cost is used as a verb to mean to require a payment or to cause the loss of something. Cost has several other senses as a noun and a verb. Cost most often refers to a specific amount of money

  3. the amount of money that you need to buy or do something: The cruise ship was built at a cost of $400 million. Software is included at no extra cost. The cost of living (= the cost of food, clothes, etc) has increased. Fewer examples. the overall cost of the holiday.

  4. Definitions of cost. verb. be priced at. “These shoes cost $100” synonyms: be. see more. noun. the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor. see more. noun. the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) “he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection”

  5. Definition of cost noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. cost. noun. /kɒst/ /kɔːst/ Idioms. [countable, uncountable] the amount of money that you need in order to buy, make or do something. cost of something the high/low cost of housing. at a cost of something A new computer system has been installed at a cost of £80 000.

  6. Definition of cost noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. cost. noun. /kɔst/ [countable, uncountable] the amount of money that you need in order to buy, make, or do something the high/low cost of housing A new computer system has been installed at a cost of $150,000. The plan had to be abandoned on grounds of cost.

  7. 2 days ago · 1. countable noun [usually singular] The cost of something is the amount of money that is needed in order to buy, do, or make it. The cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold. [ + of] In 1989 the price of coffee fell so low that in many countries it did not even cover the cost of production. [ + of]

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