costs
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cost/kɒst/
▶verb (past and past part. cost)
- 1 require the payment of (a specified sum) in order to be bought or obtained.
■ cause or require the expenditure or loss of.
■ informal be expensive for: it'll cost you.
- 2 (past and past part. costed) estimate the price or cost of.
■ the effort or loss necessary to achieve something.
■ (costs) legal expenses, especially those allowed in favour of the winning party or against the losing party in a suit.
– phrases
at all costs (or at any cost) regardless of the price or the effort needed.
at cost at cost price.
cost someone dear (or dearly) involve someone in a serious loss or a heavy penalty.
to someone's cost with loss or disadvantage to someone.
at all costs (or at any cost) regardless of the price or the effort needed.
at cost at cost price.
cost someone dear (or dearly) involve someone in a serious loss or a heavy penalty.
to someone's cost with loss or disadvantage to someone.
– origin ME: from OFr. coust (n.), couster (v.), based on L. constare ‘stand firm, stand at a price’.
'costs' also found in these Oxford entries:
absorption costing
- bill of costs
- break
- break-even
- cost
- cost accounting
- cost centre
- cost-plus
- cut
- discretionary income
- economy
- equity of redemption
- expense
- externalize
- fixed costs
- front-load
- general average
- hell-bent
- indirect
- internalize
- just-in-time
- marginal
- mount
- offshoring
- pay
- prix fixe
- profit centre
- profit margin
- pro forma
- regretfully
- retrench
- seigniorage
- sponsor
- supply
- tax
- that
- twopenn'orth
- value added
