Price vs. Cost

Pricenoun

The cost required to gain possession of something.

Pricenoun

The cost of an action or deed.

Pricenoun

Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

Priceverb

(transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.

Priceverb

To pay the price of; to make reparation for.

Priceverb

To set a price on; to value; to prize.

Priceverb

To ask the price of.

Pricenoun

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost.

Pricenoun

Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

Pricenoun

Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.

Priceverb

To pay the price of.

Priceverb

To set a price on; to value. See Prize.

Priceverb

To ask the price of; as, to price eggs.

Pricenoun

the amount of money needed to purchase something;

Pricenoun

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

Pricenoun

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

Pricenoun

the high value or worth of something;

Pricenoun

a reward for helping to catch a criminal;

Pricenoun

cost of bribing someone;

Pricenoun

United States operatic soprano (born 1927)

Priceverb

determine the price of;

Priceverb

ascertain or learn the price of;

Price

A price is the (usually not negative) quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for one unit of goods or services. In some situation, the price of production has a different name.

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.