Definition of cost

"cost" in the noun sense

1. cost

the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

2. monetary value, price, cost

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold

"the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"

"he puts a high price on his services"

"he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"

3. price, cost, toll

value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

"the cost in human life was enormous"

"the price of success is hard work"

"what price glory?"

"cost" in the verb sense

1. cost, be

be priced at

"These shoes cost $100"

2. cost

require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice

"This mistake cost him his job"

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Quotations for cost

More cost than worship. [ Proverb ]

To command many will cost much. [ Proverb ]

Good words cost no more than bad. [ Proverb ]

A wise man may be kind without cost. [ Proverb ]

The tongue talks at the head's cost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The cost takes away from the relish. [ French Proverb ]

Bought wit is best, but may cost too much. [ Proverb ]

Good words are worth much and cost little. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? [ Shakespeare ]

Good words cost nothing, but are worth much. [ Proverb ]

Heaven is a cheap purchase, whatever it cost. [ Proverb ]

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]

Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost.
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,
Star-eyed Intelligence. [ Mary Clemmer ]

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. [ Proverb ]

Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. [ Fuller ]

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. [ James A. Froude ]

A house ready built never sells for so much as it cost. [ Proverb ]

Cost is the father and compensation is the mother of progress. [ J. G. Holland ]

How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!

Old houses mended cost little less than new before they're ended. [ Gibber ]

With cost, good pottage may be made out of a leg of a joint stool. [ Proverb ]

Ever keep thy promise, cost what it may; this it is to be true as steel. [ Charles Reade ]

If our bodies were to cost no more than our souls, we might board cheap. [ Proverb ]

Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks silence. [ Fuller ]

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

They teach us to dance; O that they could teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a glow! [ Madame Deluzy ]

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. [ Joubert ]

Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? [ Bible ]

A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing. [ Colton ]

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost! [ Bruyere ]

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. [ Chesterfield ]

Someone once observed, and the observation did him credit, whoever he was, that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping. [ Albert Smith ]

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

cost in Scrabble®

The word cost is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters cost:

COST
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COTS
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word cost

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cost in Words With Friends™

The word cost is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters cost:

COTS
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COST
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The 135 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In cost

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Words containing the sequence cost

Words that end with cost (5 words)

Word Growth involving cost

Shorter words in cost

os

Longer words containing cost

accost accosted unaccosted

accost accosting

accost accosts

alecost alecosts

appendicostomies neoappendicostomies

appendicostomy neoappendicostomy

caecostomies

caecostomy

cecostomies

cecostomy

coracosteon

corticosteroid adrenocorticosteroid adrenocorticosteroids

corticosteroid corticosteroids adrenocorticosteroids

corticosteroid corticosteroids noncorticosteroids

corticosteroid noncorticosteroid noncorticosteroidal

corticosteroid noncorticosteroid noncorticosteroids

corticosterone corticosterones dehydrocorticosterones

corticosterone corticosterones deoxycorticosterones

corticosterone corticosterones desoxycorticosterones hydroxydesoxycorticosterones

corticosterone corticosterones hydroxycorticosterones monohydroxycorticosterones

corticosterone dehydrocorticosterone dehydrocorticosterones

corticosterone dehydrocorticosterone hydroxydehydrocorticosterone

corticosterone deoxycorticosterone deoxycorticosterones

corticosterone desoxycorticosterone desoxycorticosterones hydroxydesoxycorticosterones

corticosterone desoxycorticosterone hydroxydesoxycorticosterone hydroxydesoxycorticosterones

corticosterone hydroxycorticosterone hydroxycorticosterones monohydroxycorticosterones

corticosterone hydroxycorticosterone monohydroxycorticosterone monohydroxycorticosterones

costa costal coracocostal

costa costal iliocostal iliocostalis

costa costal intercostal dorsointercostal

costa costal intercostal intercostally

costa costal intercostal intercostals

costa costal pentecostal

costa costal sacrocostal sacrocostals

costa costal vertebrocostal

costa costar costarred

costa costar costarring

costa costar costars

costa costate quinquecostate

costa lexicostatistic lexicostatistical lexicostatistically

costa lexicostatistic lexicostatistics

costa uncostable

costa zincostaurolite

costcutting

costeffective costeffectiveness

costefficient

costermongered

costermongerer costermongerers

costermongeries

costermongering

costermongery

costiasis

costiferous

costimulation

costing accosting

costing overcosting

costing undercosting

costispinal

costless

costlier

costliest

costliness overcostliness

costliness uncostliness

costly overcostly

costly uncostly

costoabdominal

costoapical costoapically

costoaxillary

costocentral

costochondral

costochondritis

costoclavicular

costocolic

costocoracoid

costocorporeal

costodiaphragmatic

costogenic

costoinferior

costophrenic

costopleural

costopneumopexy

costopulmonary

costoscapular

costosternal

costosuperior

costothoracic

costotome costotomes

costotomies

costotomy

costotransversal

costotransverse

costovertebral

costoxiphoid

costs accosts

costs alecosts

costs overcosts

costs undercosts

costume costumed

costume costumer costumers

costume costumes

costuming

hepaticostomies

hepaticostomy

melacosteon

mycosterol mycosterols

overcost overcosted

overcost overcosting

overcost overcostliness

overcost overcostly

overcost overcosts

sarcostyle sarcostyles

thoracostomies

thoracostomy

tricostrongylosis

uncosted

undercost undercosted

undercost undercosting

undercost undercosts

vesicostomies

vesicostomy