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cost

(kôst)

1. An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.

2. The expenditure of something, such as time or labor, necessary for the attainment of a goal: "Freedom to advocate unpopular causes does not require that such advocacy be without cost" (Milton Friedman).

3. costs Law Charges incurred in bringing litigation, including court fees and charges that may be payable by the losing party, but usually not including attorneys' fees.

v. cost, cost·ing, costs

v.intr.

To require a specified payment, expenditure, effort, or loss: It costs more to live in the city.

v.tr.

1. To have as a price.

2. To cause to lose, suffer, or sacrifice: Participating in the strike cost me my job.

3. past tense and past participle costed To estimate or determine the cost of: The accountants costed out our expenses.

Idiom:

at all costs

Regardless of the expense or effort involved; by any means.

[Middle English, from Old French, from coster, to cost, from Latin cōnstāre, to be fixed, cost; see constant.]

cost′less adj.

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Adj.

costless - costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"

gratis, gratuitous, complimentary, free

unpaid - not paid; "unpaid wages"; "an unpaid bill"

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