cost (/kɒst/)
verb, noun · Beginner · Work & Business
🔊 /kɒst/
Meaning
Meaning: price; to have a price
The amount of money needed to buy something, or to require that amount as payment.
Examples
🗣 How much does this jacket cost?
Etymology
From Old French ‘coster’, from Latin ‘constare’ (to stand firm, cost).
How & Where It’s Used
One of the most-used questions when shopping; ‘cost’ is also its own past tense (‘it cost ten pounds’).
Tags: money, shopping