单词 | cost |
释义 | Word Frequency cost(kɒst) noun 1. the price paid or required for acquiring, producing, or maintaining something, usually measured in money, time, or energy; expense or expenditure; outlay 2. suffering or sacrifice; loss; penalty count the cost to your health I know to my cost 3. a. the amount paid for a commodity by its seller to sell at cost b. (as modifier) the cost price 4. (plural) law the expenses of judicial proceedings 5. at any cost 6. at the cost of verbWord forms: costs, costing or cost 7. (transitive) to be obtained or obtainable in exchange for (money or something equivalent); be priced at the ride cost three pounds 8. to cause or require the expenditure, loss, or sacrifice (of) the accident cost him dearly 9. to estimate the cost of (a product, process, etc) for the purposes of pricing, budgeting, control, etc Derived forms costless (ˈcostless) adjective costlessly (ˈcostlessly) adverb Word origin C13: from Old French (n), from coster to cost, from Latin constāre to stand at, cost, from stāre to stand |
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