Definition of costs

"costs" 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?"

"costs" 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 costs

Another's bread costs dear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Money often costs too much. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

What comes by kind costs nothing. [ Proverb ]

What costs little is less esteemed. [ Proverb ]

It is good beef that costs nothing. [ Proverb ]

Politeness costs little and yields much. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

It costs more to do ill than to do well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is nothing costs less than civility. [ Cervantes ]

Nothing costs so much as what is given us. [ Proverb ]

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. [ M. Wortley Montagu ]

Sometimes it costs a great deal to do mischief. [ Proverb ]

Lip honour costs little, yet may bring in much. [ Proverb ]

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

That man is well bought who costs but a salutation. [ Proverb ]

It costs more to satisfy a vice than to feed a family. [ Balzac ]

Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle. [ Rev. Thomas Adam ]

Wine that costs nothing is digested before it be drunk. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It costs us more to revenge injuries than to bear them. [ Proverb ]

Men are very generous with that which costs them nothing. [ Proverb ]

The maintaining of one vice, costs more than ten virtues. [ Proverb ]

A good word for a bad one is worth much, and costs little. [ Proverb ]

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. [ H. W. Shaw ]

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. [ Horace Mann ]

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. [ Hosea Ballou ]

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs then neither study nor labor. [ Bruyere ]

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]

costs in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters costs:

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costs in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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

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Words within the letters of costs

2 letter words in costs (3 words)

3 letter words in costs (2 words)

4 letter words in costs (5 words)

5 letter words in costs (Anagrams) (2 words)

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Words containing the sequence costs

Words that start with costs (1 word)

Words with costs in them (1 word)

Words that end with costs (5 words)

Word Growth involving costs

Shorter words in costs

os cost

Longer words containing costs

accosts

alecosts

overcosts

undercosts