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  1. noun An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.
  2. noun The expenditure of something, such as time or labor, necessary for the attainment of a goal: "Freedom to advocate unpopular causes does not require that such advocacy be without cost” (Milton Friedman).
  3. noun Law The charges fixed for litigation, often payable by the losing party.
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  • Timsen hated selling drugs, but someone had to, better him than someone else, for the cost was always reasonable, as reasonable as possible, and he knew he could make a fortune selling to the Japanese, but he never did, only to the camp and really only for a slight profit, when you thought of the risks involved. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • We cannot install solar panels or wind turbines as the cost is astronomical. —  Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles
  • In this case, one element of the cost is the 24m Australian dollars ($17m, £11m) that authorities will spend eradicating rabbits and the rats and mice that eat seabird chicks. —  British Blogs
  • They get you coming and going, though: "In this case, one element of the cost is the 24m Australian dollars ($17m, £11m) that authorities will spend eradicating rabbits and the rats and mice that eat seabird chicks." —  Pursuing Holiness
  • But in objecting to making the suit a class-action, they argued that the cost was actually a —  Toledo Newspaper
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from coster, to cost, from Latin cōnstāre, to be fixed, cost; see constant.

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  1. from Middle English cost, from Old Northumbrian cost, from Icelandic kostr, masculine, choice, chance, opportunity, condition, state, quality, = Anglo-Saxon cyst, feminine, choice, election, a thing chosen, excellence, virtue, = Old Saxon kust = OFries. kest, choice, estimation, virtue, = Middle Dutch, Dutch kust = Old High German chust, cust, Middle High German kust, German kurst, feminine, choice, = Gothic (Moesogothic) kustus, masculine, gakusts, feminine, test, proof; with formative -t, from Gothic (Moesogothic) kiusan = Anglo-Saxon ceósan (past participle coren), etc., choose: see choose.
  2. from Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster, French coûter, cost, = Provencal Spanish costar = Portuguese custar = Italian costare (= Dutch kosten = Old High German*chostōn, Middle High German kosten, German kosten = Danish koste = Swedish Icelandic kosta, after Roman), from Middle Latin costare, contr. of Latin constare, stand together, stand at, cost, from com-, together, + stare, stand: see constant.
  3. from Middle English cost, coust, French coût, cost, = Provencal cost, costa = Spanish costo, costa = Portuguese custa = Italian costo = Dutch kost = Old High German chosta, Middle High German koste, German kost = Danish Swedish kost (Middle Latin costa), cost, expense; from the verb.
  4. from Latin costa, a rib, side: see coast.
  5. Middle English cooste, costmary; = Provencal cost = Spanish Portuguese Italian costo, from Latin costos, costum, from Greek κόστος, an aromatic plant, from Arabic kost, kust, Hindustani kushth: see costmary.
 

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