at any cost

1. 1.

   regardless of the cost involved

   “he wanted to save her life at all cost”

   Synonymsat all costsat any expense

Questions about at any cost

What does at any cost mean?

at any cost means "regardless of the cost involved".

What is another word for at any cost?

Close synonyms include at all costs, 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 any cost a common word?

at any cost 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.