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2 definitions found 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: costing n : (British) cost accounting
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