Definition of Cost

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Definition of Cost

Cost

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

See Cottise.

of Cost

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.

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Cost Quotations

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
W. C. Fields

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Sigmund Freud

Cost Translations

cost in Afrikaans is kos
cost in Danish is koste
cost in Dutch is kosten
cost in Finnish is maksaa
cost in German is kosten
cost in Italian is costare
cost in Latin is sumptus
cost in Portuguese is custo, custar
cost in Spanish is coste, gastos, costar
cost in Swedish is kostnad, pris, kostnad

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