cost

Definition

To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

Etymology

From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…]."