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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Costly :: Costly (a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear.
Board :: Board (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo..
Value :: Value (n.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything..
Cheap :: Cheap (n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value..
Gris :: Gris (a.) A costly kind of fur.
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant..
Alecost :: Alecost (n.) The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale..
Costard :: Costard (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.
Bicostate :: Bicostate (a.) Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf..
Malacostracology :: Malacostracology (n.) That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
Costrel :: Costrel (n.) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side..
Greet :: Greet (v. t.) To accost; to address.
Accosted :: Accosted (imp. & p. p.) of Accos.
Carcinology :: Carcinology (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology..
Cost :: Cost (n.) See Cottise.
Costa :: Costa (n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib..
Expense :: Expense (n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time..
Tout-ensemble :: Tout-ensemble (n.) All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts..
Costumer :: Costumer (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc..
Whitsuntide :: Whitsuntide (n.) The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost..
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