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Definition: Cost |
CostNoun1. The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor. 2. 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. 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?". Verb1. Be priced at; "These shoes cost $100". 2. Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | The expenditure(actual or notional)incurred on, or attributable to, a given thing. The word "cost" can rarely stand on its own and should be qualified as to its nature or limitations(e. g. historical, variable, etc. )and related to a particular thing or " object of thought"(e. g. a given quantity or unit of goods made or services performed). Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | The price, excluding VAT, at which the goods were acquired by the taxable person or, if he made them himself, the cost of their manufacture, including overheads but excluding profit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Something of value, usually an amount of money, given up in exchange for something else, usually goods or services. All expenses are costs, but not all costs are expenses. (An expense is the cost of resources used to produce revenue.) As a verb, cost means to estimate the amount of money needed to produce a product or perform a service. (references) |
Statistics | The amount paid to acquire resources, such as plant and equipment, fuel, or labour services. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In economics, business, and accounting, a cost is a price paid as part of a commercial event or economic transaction. Several types of costs have been identified and labeled including:
- opportunity costs
- accounting costs
- sunk costs
- marginal cost
- transaction costs
- private costs
- social costs
- psychic costs
Accounting and Opportunity costs
One important distinction is between accounting cost and opportunity cost (also "economic cost"?). The former is total amount of money or goods expended in a endeavour. The latter is the value of the most valuable endeavour that had to be foregone in order to pursue the current endeavour. In theoretical economics, cost (used without qualification) often means opportunity cost.
Private and Social costs
Another important distinction is between private cost and social cost; the former is the part of the cost paid by the purchaser of a good or service, while the latter is the part of the same cost paid by society at large. (See Externality.)
One technique in microeconomics is to analyze various costs incurred by consumers and others by type and category.
See also
- production, costs, and pricing
- list of economics topics
- list of accounting topics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cost."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
COST | Danish | Europæisk Samarbejde om videnskabelig og teknisk Forskning | General, Engineering & Technology |
COST | Dutch | Europese samenwerking op het gebied üan het wetenschappelijk en technisch onderzoek | General, Engineering & Technology |
COST | English | Cost-Oriented Systems Technique | N/A |
COST | French | Co opération européenne dans le domaine de la recherche s cientifique et t echnique | General, Engineering & Technology |
COST | German | Europäische Zusammenarbeit auf dem Gebiet der wissenschaftlichen und technischen Forschung | General, Engineering & Technology |
COST | Italian | Cooperazione Europea nel settore della ricerca scientifica e tecnica | General, Engineering & Technology |
| Cost. | Italian | Costituzione federale della Confederazione Svizzera del 29 maggio 1874(a);Costituzione federale(b) | Law |
| COBA | English | Cost benefit analysis | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CostSynonyms: monetary value (n), price (n), toll (n), be (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caution | Think twice, look before one leaps, count the cost, look to the main chance, cut one's coat according to one's cloth; feel one's ground, feel one's way; see how the land lies; (foresight); wait to see how the cat jumps; bridle one's tongue; reculer pour mieux sauter; (prepare); let well alone, let well enough alone; let sleeping dogs lie, ne pas reveiller le chat qui dort. |
Cheapness | Verb: be cheap; Adjective: cost little; come down in price, fall in price. |
Gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing; costless, expenseless; without charge, not charged, untaxed; scotfree, shotfree, rent-free; free of cost, free of expense; honorary, unbought, unpaid. | |
Adverb: for a mere song, for a song; at cost, at cost price, at prime cost, at a reduction; a bon marche. | |
Dearness | Verb: be dear; Adjective: cost much, cost a pretty penny; rise in price, look up. |
Adverb: dear, dearly; at great cost, heavy cost; a grands frais. | |
Disappointment | Verb: be disappointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast; (wonder); find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth; find one a false prophet. |
Economy | Cost-cutting, cost control. |
Evil | Adverb: amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost |
Expenditure | Noun: expenditure, money going out; out goings, out lay; expenses, disbursement; prime cost; (price); circulation; run upon a bank. |
Inexpedience | Adverb: badly; Adjective:; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe pinches. |
Price | Noun: price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages; (remuneration); value; a. |
Fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford. | |
Resolution | At any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a blanc; cost what it may; coute; a tort et a travers; once for all; neck or nothing; rain or shine. |
Value | Cost (price). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The truth is, you just cost the insurance company $2,700. You're a terrible risk (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) I spent the last of my life savings turning my van into a dog. It cost me 200 bucks for the alarm system alone (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.) His first night in the joint, Andy Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Come on, take a bag. I took a bag home last night, and it cost me a lot more than ten quid (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Let my heart be hardedned, and never mind how high the cost may grow, this will still be so: I will never let your people go. (The Prince of Egypt; writing credit: Ken Harsha; Carole Holliday) | |
Lyrics | My love don't cost a thing (Love Don't Cost A Thing; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) Tell me why it cost so much to live (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) But I can't count the cost (Got A Hold On Me; performing artist: Christine McVie; writing credit: Christine McVie and Todd Sharp) Man it cost me 20 bucks (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David) | |
Clever | You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. (references; author: Bob Hope) Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular. (references; author: unknown) Some things that cost $5 to buy several years ago now costs $10 just to repair. (references; author: unknown) It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living. (references; author: unknown) Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The High Cost of Loving (1958) Whatever the Cost (1918) The High Cost of Starving (1917) Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003) | |
Song Titles | Love Don’t' Cost A Thing (performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) | |
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![]() | A Panamanian Indian lady dressed in her finery A quick learner - it cost a dollar to take the picture Also selling molas. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | NURP1 low cost ROV can be deployed from small boats and dive to 1000 feet. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | Figure 52. Thoulet sounder devised by Professor Julien Thoulet of the University of Nancy in 1908. This was a modification of the Belloc sounder that Professor Thoulet wished to make more portable and to have a lower cost. No information is available concerning the test and use of this machine. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Mist irrigation system cost shared and designed by NRCS in Espanola, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
![]() | This livestock crossing was installed to offer a stable point for livestock to cross a stream. This low cost engineering practice is an efficient method of reducing bank erosion. Livestock crossings are part of a system promoting rotational grazing. Credit: Don Poggensee. | ![]() | Because much of the cost of a cow is the feed and labor needed to maintain her, fewer but higher yielding cows mean lower priced milk. Dairy herd improvement ultimately benefits consumers. Photo by Keith Weller. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
![]() | How Much Can Heroin Cost You? : Heroin Screws You Up. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | A preventable disease - river blindness - cost this man his sight. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P.A. Pittet.. |
![]() | Taxpayer watching armament cost and waste grow. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Aladdin and the wonderful lamp. The genii: What are my lord's commands? Aladdin: Reduce the cost of living!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Medicine woes" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "Picture posed to illustrate an article on the high cost of prescription drugs. Not the best technically, but maybe you can fix it." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Blaise Pascal | Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. |
Demosthenes | I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas. |
Jean De La BruyFre | The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? |
Jefferson | How much have cost us the evils that never happened! |
Josh Billings | Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most. |
St. Ignatius Loyola | Teach us to give and not count the cost. |
Thomas Fuller | Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. |
Thomas Jefferson | How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | The short of the case in conquest is this: the conqueror, if he have a just cause, has a despotical right over the persons of all, that actually aided, and concurred in the war against him, and a right to make up his damage and cost out of their labour and estates, so he injure not the right of any other. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | But the price of a commodity, and therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The cost of construction shall be borne by the Czecho-Slovak State. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | The Census report, like most such surveys, had cost an awful lot of money and didn't tell anybody anything they didn't already know - except that every single person in the Galaxy had 2.4 legs and owned a hyena |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When their houses are in ruins they rebuild them without cost. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The gossip of his fellowstudents which strove to render the flat life of the college significant at any cost loved to think of him as a young fenian |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Since I am crept in favour with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And four pears peeled and cut in half, cooked and canned, still cost fifteen cents |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In this exercise I once met an accident which had like to have cost me my life |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | And for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Ask about the cost of sperm banking. (references) | |
Cost is not only considered in dollars. (references) | ||
In 1997, diabetes cost the United States $98 billion. (references) | ||
Business | One important issue is the cost of labor. (references) | |
This translates into a 25 percent cost reduction. (references) | ||
Cost of tuition, room and board are next in importance. (references) | ||
Children | Belarus | Higher education also is available at no cost on a competitive basis. (references) |
Malaysia | A variety of programs provide low cost health care for most children. (references) | |
Netherlands | Vocational education is also free, except for the cost of books and materials. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Senegal | A personal account with unlimited access time cost approximately $18 (10,000 CFA francs) per month. (references) |
Haiti | The written press is beyond the reach of many citizens, due to language differences, illiteracy, and cost. (references) | |
Syria | Cellular telephone service was introduced early in 2000, although its prohibitive cost severely limits the number of subscribers. (references) | |
Economic History | Tanzania | Labor cost is comparatively inexpensive. (references) |
Lebanon | The work is estimated to cost $11.7 million. (references) | |
Nicaragua | A disadvantage is the high cost of transportation. (references) | |
Human Rights | Morocco | Observers alleged that petty bribery remained a routine cost of court business. (references) |
Iraq | There were persistent reports that the families were made to pay for the cost of executions. (references) | |
Ireland | For indigent defendants, the State assumes the cost of providing counsel under the criminal legal aid scheme. (references) | |
Minorities | Austria | He paid a fine to cover the cost of restoring the damage done to the graves. (references) |
Political Economy | CHINA | China is gradually recognizing the economic cost of copyright infringement. (references) |
MOROCCO | A plethora of minor taxes can significantly raise the cost of certain imported goods. (references) | |
Trade | Korea | This may cost a bit more, but may be well worth it. (references) |
Israel | The VAT is levied on the CIF landed cost plus purchase tax. (references) | |
Russia | A customs processing fee of 0.15 percent of the cost is also levied. (references) | |
Travel | Guinea | Low cost items will be more successful. (references) |
Nicaragua | Approximate cost per minute is 26 U.S. cents. (references) | |
Laos | VISAS ON ARRIVAL COST US $30 AND ARE VALID FOR 15 DAYS. (references) | |
Women | Kuwait | The Minister estimated the total cost of gender segregation at approximately $1.8 billion. (references) |
Afghanistan | Some women could not afford the cost of a burqa, and thus had to remain at home or risk beatings if they left their houses uncovered. (references) | |
Peru | Although official figures for the number of arrests and convictions in abuse cases are unavailable, NGO sources contend that the majority of reported cases do not result in formal charges due to fear of retaliation from the accused spouse, or because of the cost involved in pursuing a complaint. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The minimum wage is calculated periodically and adjusted for cost of living increases. (references) |
Suriname | Including a cost of living allowance, the lowest wage for civil servants is about $100 (Sf244,000) per month. (references) | |
Bahamas | In view of the high cost of living, this wage alone does not provide more than a subsistence living for a worker and family. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. The Enemy of Human Souls Sat grieving at the cost of coals; For Hell had been annexed of late, And was a sovereign Southern State. "It were no more than right," said he, "That I should get my fuel free. The duty, neither just nor wise, Compels me to economize -- Whereby my broilers, every one, Are execrably underdone. What would they have? -- although I yearn To do them nicely to a turn, I can't afford an honest heat. This tariff makes even devils cheat! I'm ruined, and my humble trade All rascals may at will invade: Beneath my nose the public press Outdoes me in sulphureousness; The bar ingeniously applies To my undoing my own lies; My medicines the doctors use (Albeit vainly) to refuse To me my fair and rightful prey And keep their own in shape to pay; The preachers by example teach What, scorning to perform, I teach; And statesmen, aping me, all make More promises than they can break. Against such competition I Lift up a disregarded cry. Since all ignore my just complaint, By Hokey-Pokey! I'll turn saint!" Now, the Republicans, who all Are saints, began at once to bawl Against his competition; so There was a devil of a go! They locked horns with him, tete-a-tete In acrimonious debate, Till Democrats, forlorn and lone, Had hopes of coming by their own. That evil to avert, in haste The two belligerents embraced; But since 'twere wicked to relax A tittle of the Sacred Tax, 'Twas finally agreed to grant The bold Insurgent-protestant A bounty on each soul that fell Into his ineffectual Hell. Edam Smith |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I want a pneumatic tube in my house with a scanner that will read my mind, select my food and then shotgun a pre-chewed burger and fries bolus directly into my a-hole while a computer simultaneously deducts the cost from my ATM. |
Jeanne Shaheen | Well, I disagree with your numbers. I think there are ways to do a prescription drug benefit through Medicare that are not going to cost that amount. And again, I think the way we begin this discussion is by lowering the cost of prescription drugs. |
Phyllis Diller | Oh, please. Shaggy thing. I've seen Halloween outfits that cost more. So they wanted to do it again, and I said let me set up one. So I was nude on a bear rug like babies. |
Rush Limbaugh | Yet aaaall of a sudden, they care about the cost of the war to protect us from an enemy who's declared it their duty to get nukes and use them against us. |
Russell Crowe | The thing is you're just going to get yourself into a lot of trouble. You know, eventually it will cost you more money. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | As yet little addition of cost has even been experienced upon the articles burdened with heavier duties by the last tariff. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Not only those who are now making their tax returns, but those who meet the enhanced cost of existence in their monthly bills, know by hard experience what this great burden is and what it does. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | There is a belief abroad that by invoking technicalities, subterfuge, and delay, the ends of justice may be thwarted by those who can pay the cost. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Organized and juvenile crimes cost the taxpayers millions of dollars each year, making it essential that we have improved enforcement and new legislative safeguards. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | To hold down the cost of living, we must hold down the cost of government. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Continued increases in the cost of fuel are expected to make transit a growing part of the nation's transportation system. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | A decade of rampant inflation drained its reserves as we tried to protect beneficiaries from the spiraling cost of living. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Any cost in lives is beyond our power to measure. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Tell it to the small businesses burdened by the skyrocketing cost of insurance. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost, and we dread the days of mourning that always come. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Cost" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.01% of the time. "Cost" is used about 18,598 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 74.01% | 13,765 | 662 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.46% | 2,503 | 3,617 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.31% | 1,546 | 5,297 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 3.8% | 706 | 9,481 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 0.4% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18,598 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cost" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cost | Last name | 1,000 | 16,215 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Cost Plus Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Cost, TX |
Expressions using "cost": accounting cost ♦ acquisition cost ♦ allocation of cost ♦ alternative cost ♦ alternative justifiable cost method ♦ at any cost ♦ at cost price ♦ at great cost ♦ at the cost of ♦ at the prime cost ♦ at your cost ♦ average cost ♦ avoided cost ♦ bear the cost ♦ below cost ♦ borrowing cost ♦ budgeted cost ♦ building cost index ♦ calculate the cost ♦ capital cost ♦ carrying cost ♦ comparative cost ♦ constructive Cost Model ♦ cost accountant ♦ cost accounting ♦ cost allocation ♦ cost analysis ♦ cost and freight ♦ cost basis ♦ cost benefit analysis ♦ cost calculation ♦ cost categories ♦ cost center ♦ cost centre ♦ cost committee ♦ cost components ♦ cost control ♦ cost cutting ♦ cost dear ♦ cost Driver Attribute ♦ cost effectiveness ♦ cost escalation ♦ cost formula ♦ Cost free ♦ cost identification analysis ♦ cost increase ♦ cost indexes ♦ cost insurance and freight ♦ cost insurance freight ♦ cost insurance freight and commission ♦ cost ledger ♦ cost much ♦ cost of acquisition ♦ cost of capital ♦ cost of carry ♦ Cost of Illness ♦ cost of living ♦ cost of living adjustment ♦ cost of living allowance ♦ cost of living bonus ♦ cost of living index ♦ cost of maintenance ♦ cost of production ♦ cost of repairs ♦ cost of transportation ♦ cost out ♦ cost overrun ♦ cost plus ♦ cost price ♦ Cost Savings ♦ Cost Sharing ♦ cost sheet ♦ cost smth. ♦ cost structure ♦ cost the earth ♦ cost trender ♦ cost volume profit analysis ♦ cost what it may ♦ cost what it may! ♦ Costs and Cost Analysis ♦ depreciated reproduction cost ♦ design cost engineer ♦ differential cost ♦ direct cost ♦ direct medical cost ♦ distribution cost ♦ dollar cost averaging ♦ estimated cost ♦ estimated prime cost ♦ excess cost ♦ farming cost ♦ find to one's cost ♦ first cost ♦ fixed cost ♦ flat cost ♦ Free cost ♦ free of cost ♦ generalized cost ♦ handling cost ♦ heavy cost ♦ high cost. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cost": cost-a, cost-accounting, cost-a-lot, cost-base, cost-based, cost-behaviour, cost-beneficial, cost-benefit, cost-benefit analysis, cost-benefit-calculating, cost-benefits, cost-book, cost-caps, Cost-center, cost-centers, cost-centre, cost-centred, cost-centres, cost-competitive, cost-competitiveness, cost-conscious, cost-consciousness, cost-containing, cost-containment, cost-control, cost-controlling, cost-covering, cost-curbing, cost-cut, cost-cuting, cost-cutter, cost-cutters, cost-cutting, cost-cutting measures, cost-depreciated, cost-differentiation, cost-driven, cost-driver, cost-drivers, cost-effective, cost-effectively, cost-effectiveness, cost-efficiency, cost-efficient, cost-escalation, cost-focus, cost-free, cost-impractical, cost-improvement, cost-income, cost-increasing, cost-ineffective, cost-inflation, cost-inflationary, cost-influencing, cost-in-use, cost-justification, cost-justified, cost-justify, cost-justifying, cost-leadership, cost-minimisation, cost-minimization, cost-minimizing, cost-neutral, cost-obsessed, cost-of-capital, cost-of-carry, cost-of-funds, cost-of-living, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living benefit, cost-of-living index, cost-of-living-adjustment, cost-of-ownership, cost-optimised, cost-optimises, cost-oriented, cost-per-case, cost-per-copy, cost-performance, cost-per-inhabitant, cost-per-megabyte, cost-per-mile, cost-per-response, cost-plus, cost-plus contract, cost-price, cost-pull inflation, cost-push, cost-push inflation, cost-quality, cost-ranking, cost-rational, cost-recovery, cost-reducing, cost-reduction, cost-reductions, cost-saving, cost-savings, cost-schedule, cost-shared, Cost-sharing, cost-system, cost-to-income, cost-trimming, cost-uneffective, cost-utility, cost-wise. | |
Ending with "cost": benefit-cost, current-cost, equipment-cost, full-cost, historic-cost, lower-cost, lowest-cost, no-cost, on-cost, response-cost, time-cost. | |
Containing "cost": implicit-cost elements. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cost of living | 2,752 | low cost airline | 178 |
cost of living calculator | 1,208 | viagra cost | 174 |
cost plus | 1,023 | home building cost | 158 |
cost of living comparison | 985 | shipping cost | 156 |
low cost web hosting | 760 | no cost refinance | 153 |
cost of living index | 719 | no closing cost refinance | 151 |
cost plus world market | 686 | wedding cost | 147 |
closing cost | 618 | plastic surgery cost | 143 |
cost | 539 | building cost | 141 |
construction cost | 450 | cost breast implant | 140 |
cost accounting | 410 | mortgage closing cost | 139 |
low cost health insurance | 384 | cost of college | 128 |
cost of liposuction | 293 | opportunity cost | 126 |
cost cutter | 254 | viagra low cost | 122 |
low cost airfare | 246 | compare cost living | 120 |
low cost | 246 | cost of living adjustment | 119 |
abortion cost | 239 | cost of living increase | 118 |
low cost life insurance | 190 | replacement window cost | 117 |
cost of health care | 183 | atlanta closing cost georgia in loan no | 117 |
low cost auto insurance | 181 | cost it security | 116 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kos (food, nourishment). (various references) | |
Albanian | vlerësoj (appraise, appreciate, assess, balance, calculate, esteem, estimate, evaluate, judge, measure, prise, prize, put, rate, value, weigh), pagesë (carfare, charge, compensation, consideration, fare, fee, honorarium, pay, payment, quittance, remuneration, salary, wage), llogaris koston, kushton, kushtoj (consecrate, dedicate, devote, inscribe, pay), kosto (damage, denomination, first cost), kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), çmim (charge, damage, estimate, figure, honor, honour, kudos, premium, price, prise, prize, prize money, purchase, rate, recompense, reward, value). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلفة, كلف (freckle, set back), نفقة (aliment, expenditure, expense, outlay, pension), قدر (afford, amount, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, guess, lot, magnitude, manage to, measure, number, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, quantity, rate, size, suppose, think, treasure, value, volume), ثمن (charge, damage, eighth, esteem, estimate, price, revalue, value). (various references) | |
Basque | kostatu (cost to). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | струвам (be, set back, stand in), стойност (appraisement, damage, denomination, feck, price, rate, value, worth), разход (drain, expenditure, expense, outgo), цена (charge, market, price, rate, terms, value, worth). (various references) | |
Catalan | val (costs), despeses (charge, expense). (various references) | |
Chinese | 花費 (expense), 費用 (expenditure, expense), 费用 (costs, Expense, expenses), 價款 , 代價 (price). (various references) | |
Croatian | stoji. (various references) | |
Czech | cena (award, charge, costs, figure, merit, premium, price, prize, purse, quotation, rate, tariff, valuation, value, worth, worthiness), stát (be, be up, country, polity, stagnate, stand, state), náklady (costs, expenditure). (various references) | |
Danish | koste. (various references) | |
Dutch | kosten (charge, expense). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kosto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kosta. (various references) | |
Farsi | هزینه (Charge, Disbursement, Expenditure, Expense, Outgo, Outlay, Tab), قیمت داشتن , خرج (Disburse, Disbursement, Expenditure, Expense, Input, Outlay), ارزش داشتن , ارزش (Avail, Price, Valence, Value), بها (Price, Valuation, Value, Worth). (various references) | |
Finnish | maksaa (costs, pay, to pay). (various references) | |
French | coût (costs), coûter. (various references) | |
French Canadian | coûte (costs). (various references) | |
Frisian | kostje. (various references) | |
Galician | costa. (various references) | |
German | kosten (charge, charges, costs, expenditure, expense, expenses, fees, outlay, sample, savor, savour, set back, take, taste, to cost, to cost (cost), preis (award, charge, fare, fee, figure, praise, premium, price, prize, purchase, rate, reward, trophy). (various references) | |
Greek | κόστος (cost price, costs, first price, net price, prime price, self price), κοστίζω, δαπάνη (charge, expenditure, expense, outgo). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחיר (expense, figure, price, toll, value, wage, wages), עלות, דמים (fee, money, price, value). (various references) | |
Hungarian | költség (charge, expenditure, expense, necessary, outlay, scot-free), ár (awl, bodkin, driver, flood, full sea, high water, mainstream, margin, price, pricker, prodding tool, puncheon, rate, torrent). (various references) | |
Icelandic | kosta. (various references) | |
Indonesian | ongkos (charge, expense, outgoings), harga (price, value), biaya (expense, feal, fee, outlay, tariff), belanja (expenditure, expense, go shopping). (various references) | |
Irish | costas, chosnaíonn. (various references) | |
Italian | costare (be expensive, expenditure, expenses, fee, savour, set back, taste), spese (charge, costs, expense, expenses, outgoings, shopping), costo (effort, expense, price, prize). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 価 (merit, price, value, worth), 代 (age, charge, generation, materials, price, society, substitution, world), 代価 (charge, price), 代金 (charge, payment, price, the bill, the money), 元値 , 値 (merit, price, value, worth), 値 (price, value, worth), コジアスコ山 (co-generation system, cost control, cost down, cost inflation, cost per thousand, cost performance, cost saving, cost up, Costa Rica, cost-push inflation, costume, Mount Kosciusko), 値段 (price), 費用 (expense), 価 (merit, price, value, worth), 価格 (price, value), 価格 (price, value), 経費 (expenses, outlay), 費 (expense), 費用 (expense), 値段 (price). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねだん (price), ひよう (expense, flight, flying), ひ (blaze, consort, day, expense, faulty-, fire, flame, hail, ice, light, negation, no, non-, princess, proportion, ratio, rook, spoon, sun, sunlight, sunshine, the noes, wicked person), かかく (customer wreath, family status, flower-viewing guest, poetry rules, poetry style, price, putamen, special guests, traveller, value), あたい (merit, price, value, worth), コスト , もとね, けいひ (cinnamon, expenses, outlay), だいきん (charge, payment, price, the bill, the money), だいか (charge, his honor, price, your honor), だい (brotherly affection, charge, faithful service to those older, ordinal, price, rack, stand, subject, support, table, theme, title, topic, younger brother), ね (first sign of Chinese zodiac, merit, note, price, root, sleep, sound, value, worth). (various references) | |
Korean | 비용 (costs, Expenditure). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | kascht. (various references) | |
Manx | leagh (consideration, fee, payment, price, recompense, renumeration, reward, valuation, worth), costys (expenditure, outlay), costal (costly, precious, sumptuous, valuable). (various references) | |
Occitan | costar. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kosta (coast, seaside, shore), bal (bullet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ostcay.(various references) | |
Polish | kosztować. (various references) | |
Portuguese | custo (charge, damage, expenditure, expense), custar (come, irk, leave out, to cost), preço (charge, price, rating, valuation, wage). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | custam (they cost). (various references) | |
Romanian | costa (be). (various references) | |
Romansch | custar (to cost). (various references) | |
Russian | стоить (be worth, deserve). (various references) | |
Scottish | cosgus, cosdas (expense), cosd (spend, waste). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cena (charge, price, sale price, worth), trošak (charge, drain, expenditure, expense, outgo, outlay), koštati. (various references) | |
Spanish | costar (charge, knock back, set back), coste (expenditure, expense, expenses, fee, savour, taste), gastos (charge, exes, expense, expenses, junk, outgo, outgoings, outlay), costo (charge, price, prize). (various references) | |
Sranan | kostu. (various references) | |
Swahili | gharama. (various references) | |
Swedish | pris (award, charge, figure, plate, praise, praising, price, prize, tariff, trophy), kostnad (charge, expense), kosta (set back). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้สิ้นเปลือง, ต้นทุน, ค่าใช้จ่าย, คำนวณเงินที่ต้องการ, ความเสียหาย (blight, dilapidation, loss), มีราคาแพง, มีมูลค่า. (various references) | |
Turkish | zarar (average, bad, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), paha (costliness, price), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, call forth, cause, conduce, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, incline, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), masraf (charge, damage, disbursement, drain, drain on the purse, expenditure, expense, outgo, outlay, payment), maliyet (damage), mal olmak (be, knock back, set back), fiyat (figure, price, terms), etmek (achieve, act, add up to, aggregate, carry out, do, get, have, make, pay, perform, practice, practise, render, say, send, step, subject, take, tender, total). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ціна (price, quotation), коштувати (be), вартість (purchase, value, worth), обходитися (get along with, go without, spare), потребувати (affect, crave, need, require, suppose, want). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sống nhờ vào ai, giá chi phí. (various references) | |
Welsh | costio, cost (expense), traul (attrition, expense, wear). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | constare, inpendia, inpendiis, inpensa, inpensas, sumptu, sumptum, sumptumque, sumptus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TiV gar ex umwn qelwn purgon oikodomhsai ouci prwton kaqisaV yhfizei thn dapanhn ei ecei ta proV apartismon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quis enim ex vobis volens turrem aedificare non prius sedens conputat sumptus qui necessarii sunt si habet ad perficiendum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hwylc eower wyle timbrian anne stypel. hu ne sytt he æryst and teleð þa andfengas þe him behefe synt: hwæðer he hæbbe hine to fullfremmenne |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For who of you willynge to bilde a toure, whether he `first sitte not, and countith the spensis that ben nedeful, if he haue to perfourme? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Which of you disposed to bilde a toure sytteth not doune before and counteth ye cost whether he have sufficient to performe it? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 28 |
| Cebuano | Kay kinsa ba kaninyo, nga sa magatinguha siya sa pagtukod ug torre, dili una molingkod sa pagkuwenta sa galastohan, kon aduna ba siyay igong ikapahuman niini? |
| Croatian | "Tko od vas, nakan graditi kulu, neæe prije sjesti i proraèunati troškove ima li èime dovršiti: |
| Danish | Thi hvem iblandt eder, som vil bygge et Tårn, sætter sig ikke først hen og beregner Omkostningen, om han har nok til at fuldføre det, |
| Dutch | Want wie van u, willende een toren bouwen, zit niet eerst neder, en overrekent de kosten, of hij ook heeft, hetgeen tot volmaking nodig is? |
| Finnish | Sillä jos joku teistä tahtoo rakentaa tornin, eikö hän ensin istu laskemaan kustannuksia, nähdäkseen, onko hänellä varoja rakentaa se valmiiksi, |
| French | Car, lequel de vous, s`il veut bâtir une tour, ne s`assied d`abord pour calculer la dépense et voir s`il a de quoi la terminer, |
| German | Wer ist aber unter euch, der einen Turm bauen will, und sitzt nicht zuvor und überschlägt die Kosten, ob er's habe, hinauszuführen? |
| Haitian Creole | Si yonn nan nou vle fè yon gwo batisman, premye bagay pou l' fè: se pou l' chita pou l' kalkile konbe sa pral koute l' pou l' wè si li gen kont lajan pou l' fin fè travay la. |
| Hungarian | Mert ha közületek valaki tornyot akar építeni, nemde elõször leülvén felszámítja a költséget, ha van-é mivel elvégezze? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau seorang dari kalian mau membangun sebuah menara, tentu ia akan duduk menghitung dahulu biayanya supaya ia tahu apakah uangnya cukup untuk menyelesaikan menara itu atau tidak. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena siapakah di antara kamu, yang hendak membangunkan sebuah menara, tiada duduk dahulu menganggarkan belanjanya, kalau-kalau cukup akan melengkapkannya? |
| Italian | Chi di voi, volendo costruire una torre, non si siede prima a calcolarne la spesa, se ha i mezzi per portarla a compimento? |
| Latvian | Jo kas no jums, gribçdams torni celt, vispirms neapsçdîsies un neaprçíinâs izdevumus, kas nepiecieðami tâ nobeigðanai, |
| Manx Gaelic | Quoi jiuish ta kiarail toor y hroggal, nagh vel soie sheese hoshiaght, as coontey yn cost, vel wheesh echey as ver mullagh er? |
| Maori | Ko wai hoki o koutou, ki te mea ia ki te hanga taumaihi, e kore e matua noho ki te tatau i nga utu, mehemea e ranea ana ana mea hei whakaoti? |
| Norwegian | For hvem av eder som vil bygge et tårn, setter sig ikke først ned og regner efter hvad det vil koste, om han har nok til å fullføre det med, |
| Rumanian | Cqci, cine dintre voi, dacq vrea sq zideascq un turn, nu stq mai kntki sq-wi facq socoteala cheltuielilor, ca sq vadq dacq are cu ce sq -l sfkrweascq? |
| Shuar | `Jea Yakí jeamtaj tusam wakerakmeka, Kuítian urutmak ajapawaintiaj tusam tura urutmajain~ki amukaintiaj tusam emka Enentáimsashtatmek. |
| Spanish | Porque ¿cuál de vosotros, queriendo edificar una torre, no se sienta primero y calcula los gastos, a ver si tiene lo que necesita para acabarla? |
| Swahili | Kwa maana, ni nani miongoni mwenu ambaye akitaka kujenga mnara hataketi kwanza akadirie gharama zake ili ajue kama ana kiasi cha kutosha cha kumalizia? |
| Swedish | Ty om någon bland eder vill bygga ett torn, sätter han sig icke då först ned och beräknar kostnaden och mer till, om han äger vad som behöves för att bygga det färdigt? |
| Uma | "Ane ria to doko' mpowangu tomi bohe, napohura-ki ulu mporeke ongkoso' pompowangu-na, ba hono' mpai' doi-na ba uma-di. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cost": costa, costae, costal, costar, costard, costards, costarred, costarring, costars, costate, costed, coster, costermonger, costermongers, costers, costing, costive, costively, costiveness, costivenesses, costless, costlessly, costlier, costliest, costliness, costlinesses, costly, costmaries, costmary, costrel, costrels, costs, costume, costumed, costumer, costumeries, costumers, costumery, costumes, costumey, costumier, costumiers, costuming. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cost": accost. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cost": accosted, accosting, accosts, adrenocorticosteroid, adrenocorticosteroids, corticosteroid, corticosteroids, corticosterone, corticosterones, intercostal, intercostals, malacostracan, malacostracans, sternocostal. (additional references) | |
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"Cost" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caost, cbst, ccsu, ceest, Cest, cesta, cesti, cesto, ciosc, cisct, Cisto, cmost, cnst, coet, coft, coist, Comsit, comt, consat, constr, coost, cort, cosa, cosd, coset, cosht, cosi, cosit, cosk, Cosl, cosm, cosp, coste, Costow, coust, cout, crost, csd, csob, Csos, Csta, cust, custo, Custy, cusx, Cvos, kosb, kost, kots, ocs, Ocsg, ostt, ozt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cost" (pronounced kÄ"st) |
| 3 | -Ä" s t | bossed, dost, Prost. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cots, scot. | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cos, cot, sot. | |
-2 letters: os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ascot, clots, coast, coats, colts, coots, coset, costa, costs, cotes, escot, scoot, scots, scout, stock, stoic, tacos, torcs. | |
+2 letters: accost, actors, ascots, cantos, castor, centos, cestoi, cestos, chotts, cloots, closet, cloths, clouts, coacts, coapts, coasts, coatis, cohost, coitus, comets, compts, comtes, contes, contos, coopts, corset, cosets, cosset, costae, costal, costar, costed, coster, costly, cotans, cottas, counts, courts, couths, covets, coyest, crofts, custom, custos, cytons, dicots, escort, escots, locust, mascot, nostoc, octads, octans, octets, octyls, oocyst, optics, picots, rectos, scoots, scotch, scoter, scotia, scouth, scouts, scrota, sector, sitcom, socket, stocks, stocky, stoics, stucco, tarocs, tocsin, tonics, topics, toxics, trocks. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Cities 19. Expressions 20. Expressions: Internet | 21. Translations: Modern 22. Translations: Ancient 23. Bible Trace 24. Abbreviations | 25. Acronyms 26. Derivations 27. Rhymes 28. Anagrams | 29. Bibliography |
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