cost
/kɔst/ noun C2- Amount of money (or time, etc.) that is required or used. · The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.· We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. · Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.· The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.
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Charlie Sloane’s slate pencil, gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper, costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one, which he sent up to her after dinner hour, met with a more favorable reception.
Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana’s important communication within the limits of ten minutes.
It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it cost them two and thirty pounds.”
It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.
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