cost

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɒst/    美 /kɔst/|/kɑst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. countable,uncountable
    — The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
  2. Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance. obsolete
  3. A rib; a side. obsolete
    — betwixt the costs of a ship
  4. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. countable,uncountable
    — Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.
  5. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
  6. A cottise.
动词 v.
  1. To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. ditransitive,transitive
    — This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
  2. To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. ditransitive,transitive
    — Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
  3. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
    — to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
  4. To calculate or estimate a price.
    — I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
  5. To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering. colloquial,transitive
    — I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.

词形变化

costs present,singular,third-person costing participle,present cost participle,past cost past costed participle,past costed past costs plural costs plural costs plural

词汇关系

下位词
accounting cost actual cost after-cost appraisal cost at any cost at the cost of business cost carbon cost closing cost come at a cost contingency cost cost-benefit analysis cost-book cost-conscious cost dear cost-effectiveness cost-free cost mark cost object cost of goods sold cost oil cost plus cost-push inflation direct cost dollar cost averaging dollar-cost averaging fixed cost flotation cost flyaway cost historical cost indirect cost landed cost low cost carrier marginal cost marginal cost of capital menu cost negative cost operating cost opportunity cost prime cost private cost should-cost sunk cost ultra low cost carrier unexpired cost unit cost variable cost weighted-average cost of capital wellhead cost
衍生词
cost an arm and a leg cost a pretty penny cost out cost the earth cost up how much does it cost miscost recost aftercost costable cost base cost-benefit cost-cutting cost cutting cost-effective cost efficiency cost-efficient cost estimate costful cost function costimate costimation costless costly cost-prohibitive cost-push cost-saving cost saving costware costworthy high-cost isocost low-cost oncost overcost transaction cost at all costs
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
词源 2
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.
词源 3
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).
Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.
词源 4
From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.
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