cost

1. 1.

   be priced at

   “These shoes cost $100”

   Synonymsbe

   Broaderbe

   Narrowerset back
2. 2.

   require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice

   “This mistake cost him his job”

   Broadernecessitate

Other forms of cost

plural

costs·

past tense

costed·

present participle

costing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cost

What does cost mean?

cost means "the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cost?

cost has 1 syllable: cost. In IPA it is /ˈkɑst/.

What is another word for cost?

Close synonyms include monetary value, price, price, toll, be. 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 cost a common word?

cost is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.