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At Any Cost

Definition: At Any Cost

At Any Cost

Adverb

1. Regardless of the cost involved; "he wanted to save her life at all cost".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: At Any Cost

Synonyms: at all costs (adv), at any expense (adv). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: At Any Cost

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Familiar Quotations: At Any Cost

Author	Quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson	The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Use in Literature: At Any Cost

Title	Author	Quote
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.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: At Any Cost

Language		Translations for "at any cost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me çdo kusht (at all costs, by any means). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		万難�'�'して (at all costs, surmounting all difficulties), 如何しても (after all, at any rate, by all means, cravingly, in the long run, no matter what, surely). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ば�"な�"�'はいして (at all costs, surmounting all difficulties), どうしても (after all, at any rate, by all means, cravingly, in the long run, no matter what, surely). (various references)

Pig Latin		atay anyay ostcay

Russian		во что бы то ни стало (at all costs, at any price, by all means), любой ценой (at all costs, at all hazards, at any price). (various references)

Spanish		a toda costa (at any price). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: At Any Cost

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-n-o-s-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: anattos, octants, sacaton.
	-3 letters: anatto, astony, cantos, cotans, cottas, cytons, octans, octant, sancta, scanty, scatty, snotty, sonata, toasty.
	-4 letters: anoas, antas, antsy, ascot, atony, canso, canst, canto, cants, canty, catty, coast, coats, costa, cotan, cotta, cyano, cyans, cyton, nasty, natty, octan, santo, satay, scant, scatt, stoat, stony, tacos, tacts, tansy, tanto, tasty, toast.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-n-o-s-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: chatoyants.
	+3 letters: acetylations, thiocyanates.
	+4 letters: anfractuosity, sacrosanctity.
	+5 letters: cyanoethylates, unsatisfactory.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Quotations: Fiction

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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