Cost vs. Costs

Costverb

To incur a charge; to require payment of a price.

Costverb

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

Costverb

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

Costverb

To calculate or estimate a price.

Costnoun

Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

Costnoun

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

Costnoun

(obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.

Costnoun

Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Costnoun

(obsolete) A rib; a side.

Costnoun

(heraldry) A cottise.

Costnoun

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

Costnoun

See Cottise.

Costnoun

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.

Costnoun

Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

Costnoun

Expenses incurred in litigation.

Costverb

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.

Costverb

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

Costnoun

the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

Costnoun

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold);

Costnoun

value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something;

Costverb

be priced at;

Costverb

require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice;

Cost

In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost.

Costsnoun

pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation