cost

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• (US) IPA ^(key): /kɔst/

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Noun

Singular cost

Plural costs

1. The cost of something is the price that a person pays for it.

   What is the cost of the car?

Verb

Plain form cost

Third-person singular costs

Past tense cost

Past participle cost

Present participle costing

1. (transitive & intransitive) When you say that a thing costs, you say that one must pay in order to buy it.

   That diamond ring costs a great deal of money.

2. (transitive & intransitive) One may say that an action costs a certain bad result.

   It cost me my job when I broke the machine.

   To commit a crime will cost you.

Plain form cost

Third-person singular costs

Past tense costed

Past participle costed

Present participle costing

1. (transitive) When you estimate a cost or set a cost, you cost a thing.

   The repair man costed the work to fix the car.

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