0 the amount of money needed to buy, do, or make something -- 價格；費用；成本
The estimated costs of the building project are well over £1 million. 這項建築工程的成本預算大大超出100萬英鎊。
We need to cut our advertising costs. 我們需要削減廣告支出。
I was able to buy the damaged goods at cost (= for only the amount of money needed to produce or get the goods, without any extra money added for profit). 我能以成本價買到殘損商品。
It's difficult for most people to deal with the rising cost of (= increasing price of) healthcare. 大多數人都難以承受醫療保健費用的上漲。
The supermarket chain announced that it was cutting the cost (= reducing the price) of all its fresh and frozen meat. 這家連鎖超市宣佈其所有鮮肉和冷凍肉減價銷售。
In most families, two salaries are essential to cover the cost of (= pay for) raising a family. 對許多家庭來說，要支付孩子學費雙職薪水必不可少。
When you buy a new computer, you usually get software included at no extra cost (= for no additional money). 買電腦時通常免費附送軟體。
1 something that is given, needed, or lost in order to get a particular thing -- 代價；犧牲；付出
UK It's not worth getting into an argument with Paula, as I learned to my cost (= from my unpleasant experience of having done so). 不值得和寶拉發生爭執，因為我已有過教訓。
She has finally got the job she wanted, but at great personal cost (= she has had to give up other things that were important to her). 她最終得到了想要的那份工作，可是個人付出的代價很大。
The driver managed not to hit the child who ran in front of his car, but only at the cost of injuring himself. 司機避開了在他車前亂跑的小孩，可自己卻受了傷。
We were going to paint the house ourselves, but when we considered the cost in time and effort, we decided to get a painter to do it for us. 我們本打算自己漆房子，可是考慮到既費時又費力，還是決定請油漆工來做。
2 If something costs an amount of money, you must pay that amount to buy or do it. -- 價錢為；需花費
3 to cause someone to lose or destroy something valuable -- 使付出代價；使喪失；使���牲
This reduces the costs of financial intermediation and raises the overall return on investment.
The reduction in collateral relative to debt raises the costs of lending and reduces the return on investment and the aggregate rate of growth.
In a nonlinear environment, it would be enough to have locally increasing returns like setup costs.
Additional copies, not exceeding 200, may be had at cost price : these should be ordered when the final proof is returned.
In contrast, when eco-forestry is unsubsidized, groups meeting their own set-up costs, the returns per hectare are still positive but very modest.
First, pricing and other policies that artificially 'subsidize' the returns to conversion activities on forest land or the costs of conversion need to be reformed.
Presumably this approach is a cost-saving measure of the publishers.
A cost of production analysis of conventional versus integrated versus organic apple productions systems.
