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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cost \Cost\, n. [OF. cost, F. co[^u]t. See {Cost}, v. t. ] 1. The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit. One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you Here at my house, and at my proper cost. --Shak. At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. --Prescott. 2. Loss of any kind detriment; pain; suffering. I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils. --Milton. 3. pl (Law) Expenses incurred in litigation. Note: Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not or between party and party, being those which the law gives or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party. {Bill of costs}. See under {Bill}. {Cost free}, without outlay or expense. ``Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge.'' --Thackeray. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cost \Cost\ (k?st; 115), n. [L. costa rib. See {Coast}.] 1. A rib; a side a region or coast. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. Betwixt the costs of a ship. --B. Jonson 2. (Her.) See {Cottise}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cost \Cost\ (k[o^]st; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cost}; p. pr & vb n. {Costing}.] [OF. coster, couster, F. co[^u]ter, fr L. constare to stand at to cost; con- + stare to stand See {Stand}, and cf {Constant}.] 1. To require to be given expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of as the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. --Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. --Shak. 2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. --Milton. {To cost dear}, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cottise \Cot"tise\ (k[o^]t"t[i^]s), n. [Cf. F. c[ocit]t['e] side L. costa rib.] (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a {cost}. See also {Couple-close}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cost n 1: 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" [syn: {monetary value}, {price}] 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?" [syn: {price}, {toll}] v 1: be priced at "These shoes cost $100" [syn: {be}] 2: require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job" From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Cost, TX Zip code(s): 78614 From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: COST COpenhagen SGML Tool (SGML), CoST"
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