cost
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French coster (modern: coûter).
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[edit] Noun
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cost (plural costs)
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
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[edit] Translations
amount of money, time, etc.
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negative consequence or loss
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[edit] Verb
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to cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost)
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to incur a charge, a price
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[edit] Old English
[edit] Etymology
Proto-Germanic *kus(t)- from Proto-Indo-European *geus- (“‘to choose’”). Akin to Old Saxon kostōn "to try, tempt", O.H.G. kostōn "to taste, test, try by tasting" (Ger kosten), Icel. kosta "to try, tempt", Gothic kustus "test", Old English cystan (“‘to spend, get the value of, procure’”), Old English cyst (“‘proof, test, trial; choice’”), ċēosan (“‘to choose’”). More at choose
[edit] Noun
cost m.
[edit] Adjective
cost
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