at all costs

1. 1.

   regardless of the cost involved

   “he wanted to save her life at all cost”

   Synonymsat any costat any expense

Questions about at all costs

What does at all costs mean?

at all costs means "regardless of the cost involved".

What is another word for at all costs?

Close synonyms include at any cost, at any expense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is at all costs a common word?

at all costs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.