Etimology
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
verb
cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)
(transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
(transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
To calculate or estimate a price.
(transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
Examples
This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
the packaging of home-delivered products now accounts for 30% of the solid rubbish the US generates annually, and the cardboard alone costs 1bn trees.
though it cost me ten nights' watchings
to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."
I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.
That's going to cost you!
Etimology
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.
noun
cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)
Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
Examples
The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.
The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.
Related words
hyponyms
accounting cost
actual cost
after-cost
appraisal cost
at any cost
at the cost of
carbon cost
closing cost
come at a cost
contingency cost
cost-benefit analysis
cost-book
cost-conscious
cost dear
cost-effectiveness
cost mark
cost object
cost of goods sold
cost oil
cost plus
cost-push inflation
direct cost
dollar cost averaging
dollar-cost averaging
fixed cost
flotation cost
flyaway cost
historical cost
indirect cost
landed cost
low cost carrier
marginal cost
marginal cost of capital
menu cost
negative cost
operating cost
opportunity cost
prime cost
private cost
should-cost
sunk cost
ultra low cost carrier
unexpired cost
unit cost
variable cost
weighted-average cost of capital
wellhead cost
related terms
at cost
cost and freight
cost avoidance
cost benefit analysis
cost center
cost centre
cost containment
cost control
cost cutting
cost objective
cost of business
cost of doing business
cost of living
cost of money
cost of sales
cost overrun
cost per available seat mile
cost price
design to cost
Etimology
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.
noun
cost (plural costs)
(obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Related words
related terms
costen
costning
needs-cost
Etimology
From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.
noun
cost (plural costs)
(obsolete) A rib; a side.
(heraldry) A cottise.
Examples
betwixt the costs of a ship
Coordinate terms: bendlet, garter, riband