cost
cost is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A rib; a side; a region or coast. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A rib; a side; a region or coast.
- noun. See Cottise.
- past tense & past participle. of Cost
- transitive verb. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
- transitive verb. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
- transitive verb. Expenses incurred in litigation.
- noun. 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"
- noun. 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"
- noun. the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
- verb. require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
"This mistake cost him his job"
- verb. be priced at
"These shoes cost $100"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cost:
Common word forms
costs, costal, costed, coster, costly, costful, costing, costless
Words from these letters
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