cost
/kɔst/ verb A2- To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. · This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.· It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
- To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. · Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering. · I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.· That's going to cost you!
He/she/it costs · Past cost · Past participle cost · -ing form costing
Verb forms
- Base form
- cost
- He/she/it
- costs
- Past
- cost
- Past participle
- cost
- -ing form
- costing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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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.
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.
Count the cost before you commit yourselves.
It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.
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