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cost 音標拼音: [k'ɑst] [k'ɔst] n. 代價,價值,費用
vi. 花費
vt. 使失去,值,需要,使花費 代價,價值,費用花費使失去,值,需要,使花費 cost成本
cost後生成本 cost成本 cost n 1: the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor 2: the property of having material worth ( often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); " the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; " he puts a high price on his services"; " he couldn' t calculate the cost of the collection" [ synonym: { monetary value}, { price}, { cost}] 3: value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; " the cost in human life was enormous"; " the price of success is hard work"; " what price glory?" [ synonym: { price}, { cost}, { toll}] v 1: be priced at; " These shoes cost $ 100" [ synonym: { cost}, { be}] 2: require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; " This mistake cost him his job" Cost \ Cost\, n. [ OF. cost, F. co[^ u] t. See { Cost}, v. t. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] One day shall crown the alliance on ' t so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [ Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering. [ 1913 Webster] I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. pl. ( Law) Expenses incurred in litigation. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party. [ 1913 Webster] { Bill of costs}. See under { Bill}. { Cost free}, without outlay or expense. " Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge." -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster]
Cost \ Cost\ ( k[ o^] st; 115), n. [ L. costa rib. See { Coast}.] 1. A rib; a side; a region or coast. [ Obs.] -- Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster] Betwixt the costs of a ship. -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Her.) See { Cottise}. [ 1913 Webster]
Cost \ Cost\ ( k[ o^] st; 115), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Cost}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Costing}.] [ OF. coster, couster, F. co[^ u] ter, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- stare to stand. See { Stand}, and cf. { Constant}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. [ 1913 Webster] To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { To cost dear}, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self- denial, suffering, etc. [ 1913 Webster]
Cottise \ Cot" tise\ ( k[ o^] t" t[ i^] s), n. [ Cf. F. c[^ o] t[' e] side, L. costa rib.] ( Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a { cost}. See also { Couple- close}. [ 1913 Webster] 101 Moby Thesaurus words for " cost": afford, amount, amount to, bereavement, bring, bring in, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charge, charges, come to, come up to, cost of living, cost out, cost- of- living allowance, cost- of- living index, costs, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, direct costs, disbursals, disburse, dispossession, distributed costs, divestment, expend, expenditure, expense, expense account, expenses, fetch, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, fork out, general expenses, get, go through, incur costs, indirect costs, injury, invest, labor costs, lay out, liabilities, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, material costs, mount up to, open the purse, operating costs, operating expense, outlay, overhead, pay, pay out, payment, perdition, price, price tag, prime cost, privation, put out, rate, replacement cost, robbery, ruin, run into, run through, run to, sacrifice, schedule, score, sell for, set one back, shell out, sink money in, spend, splurge, spoliation, squander, stripping, swindle sheet, tab, taking away, tariff, throw money around, total loss, total up to, unit cost |
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