Usually means: Price paid for goods, services.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word cost:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. cost: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cost, cost: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cost: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cost: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cost: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cost, cost: Wordnik
  7. cost: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cost, cost: Wiktionary
  9. cost: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cost: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cost: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cost, cost-: Dictionary.com
  13. cost: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cost: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. COST, Cost, The Cost (The Wire), The Cost (album), The Cost (band), The Cost (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cost: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cost: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cost: Rhymezone
  19. cost: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cost: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. COST: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. cost: Free Dictionary
  23. cost: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Cost, cost: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. cost: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. cost: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cost-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. COST: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Cost: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  7. Cost: Inflation Glossary
  8. cost: Legal dictionary
  9. Cost: Financial dictionary
  10. Cost: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cost: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cost, cost(o)-, cost-: Medical dictionary
  2. Cost: Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. COST: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. cost: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cost: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cost: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. cost: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
verb:  (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
verb:  To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
verb:  To calculate or estimate a price.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
noun:  Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
noun:  A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
noun:  (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
noun:  Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
noun:  (obsolete) A rib; a side.
noun:  (heraldry) A cottise.
noun:  A surname.

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