Cost is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COST in dictionary:

VERB:
• to estimate a price for production of
• (of an object or action) require the payment of (a specified sum of money) before it can be acquired or done
• cause the loss or unpleasant consequence of
• be expensive for (someone)
• estimate the price of
• 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.
• To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
• 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.
• Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
• Expenses incurred in litigation.
• be priced at
• require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
• have as its cost
NOUN:
• an amount that has to be paid or spent to buy or obtain something
• the effort, loss, or sacrifice necessary to achieve or obtain something
• legal expenses, especially those allowed in favour of the winning party or against the losing party in a suit
• amount of money, time, labour, etc, required for something
• A rib; a side; a region or coast.
• See Cottise.
• the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
• the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
• value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

Words related to COST

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Words that contain COST

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How to use COST in a sentence

• In case the fort was taken, the utmost we could hope for would be to escape death, but at the cost of remaining, no one knows how long, as slaves to the savages.
• Cartwright admitted that indulgence had cost him dear.
• The next morning she went to the railway station and ascertained exactly how much the journey would cost.
• There is a Spanish quadrilla in Cuba but I found it would cost too much to bring the company across.
• Yet he was afraid, and it cost him something of an effort to plunge into the gloom.
• In 1835, Judge Chinn, of Mississippi, visited New-York, and brought with him a slave, said to have cost the large sum of fifteen hundred dollars.
• Yet it cost me at least two days of deep anxiety before I recovered the shock.
• The white owners discovered suddenly that their cattle were of the very highest breed, and had been specially imported from England or Holland at enormous cost.
• If they are of the right sort they will soon repay their cost in easing up the furnace.
• It would only have cost him two or three thousand pounds, perhaps less.
• In a system of public schools, everything may be had at its prime cost.
• Pure milk and refreshments, especially such as are suited to children, may be obtained at a moderate cost.
• Finally, government proposed to pay the poor-law auditors in England and Ireland, which would cost L15,000.
• It never yielded enough to pay the cost of printing, as is very apt to be the case with such a hook when it is on the unpopular side and by an unknown author.
• And for this I had a fair decree, but it cost me dear.
• This instrument, which cost L30,000, long remained the largest in the world.
• His books and hymns had profited at the cost of missing many a generous after-dinner subscription, and at the expense of social unity.
• They may be successful in doing so for a considerable time, but only at the cost of great discomfort to themselves.
• I could keep eight trained servants for three thousand dollars and reduce the cost of my supplies to five thousand almost without knowing it.
• His habits were so simple and his bodily wants so few that it cost him but a trifle to live.
• That which she had done, she had done open-eyed, counting and accepting the cost.
• The two campaigns of 1848-1849 and the war indemnity had cost about 300,000,000 frs.
• All the ground gained at so much cost was lost and the Southern troops, shouting in exultation, pushed on, pouring in a terrible rifle fire.
• He repented the thought as soon as it had passed through his mind, and he understood that, however much it would cost him, he must go away to Jerusalem.
• And they have followed Him at the cost of all that men hold most dear.
• Wages and the cost of living are compared, and the chapter under this head is one of the most valuable in the summary of reports as a whole.
• Though made of boards, and run up rather hastily, it is as pretty as a picture, and cost a deal of money, though I pay no ground rent.

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