cost

About 117.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

   This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.

2. verb To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.

   Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.

3. verb To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
4. verb To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.

   I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.

5. noun Amount of money (or time, etc.) that is required or used.

   The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.

6. noun A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

   Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.

7. verb To calculate or estimate costs (such as expenses, or a price).

   I costed the repair work at a few thousand.

8. noun Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

price be toll monetary value charge purchase pay paid payment dues

Often followed by

of and to is per the for in him

Word family

costed costing costless costlessly costs