Definition of cost

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Cost (v. t.) 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..

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Expensive :: Expensive (a.) Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family..
Accosting :: Accosting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accos.
Pentecostal :: Pentecostal (a.) Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.
Defray :: Defray (v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc..
Coinage :: Coinage (v. t.) The cost or expense of coining money.
Costa :: Costa (n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
Waistcoat :: Waistcoat (n.) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.
Garb :: Garb (n.) Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century..
Costiferous :: Costiferous (a.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae..
Coster :: Coster (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc..
Costing :: Costing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cos.
Blood Money :: Blood money () Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser..
Constipate :: Constipate (v. t.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.
High :: High (superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price..
Tricostate :: Tricostate (a.) Three-ribbed; having three ribs from the base.
Discost :: Discost (v. i.) Same as Discoast.
Price :: Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost..
Miniver :: Miniver (n.) A fur esteemed in the Middle Ages as a part of costume. It is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.
Alecost :: Alecost (n.) The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale..
Chargeable :: Chargeable (a.) Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.
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