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How to pronounce “cost”
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Pronunciation guide for cost
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of cost with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Stuff of Thought
for attempting to bribe an officer in which you'd have a very high cost of an arrest for
- Definition summary
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce cost
The Stuff of Thought

for attempting to bribe an officer in which you'd have a very high cost of an arrest for
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “cost”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
- [Noun]
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
Practice Nearby Words
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Similar Sounds
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