Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A rib; a side; a region or coast.
- 2noun
See Cottise.
- 3past tense & past participle
of Cost
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive verb
Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
- 8transitive verb
Expenses incurred in litigation.
- 9noun
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"
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- 10noun
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"
- 11noun
the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
- 12verb
require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
"This mistake cost him his job"
- 13verb
be priced at
"These shoes cost $100"
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