The total money, time and resources associated with a purchase or activity.
To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
The money or resources needed to make an item
Resources used to produce a good or service
The amount of expenditure (actual or notional) incurred on, or attributable to, a specified thing or activity. To cost something is to ascertain the cost of a specified thing or activity. Cost also relates to a resource sacrificed or forgone, expressed in a monetary value.
the total dollar expenditure for labor, materials, legal services, architectural design, financing, taxes during construction, interest, contractor's overhead and profit and entrepreneurial overhead and profit.
Dollar value of goods and services received, work performed, or other financial responsibilities that result in a commitment to expend Federally appropriated or other funds. Date, name, type amount, fiscal year, period covered, currency, estimated, historical employee salary, etc.
a loss or sacrifice; an expenditure of resources.33
The amount of money or other consideration exchanged for goods or services.
require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job"
Another term for expenditure. See also expenses.
The amount of consideration exchanged for the acquisition of an asset or group of assets.
Includes all normal and reasonable expenditures necessary to get a capital asset in place and ready for its intended use.
The money outlayed to procure the resources used for a particular purpose.
Costs are usually thought of an amount expended, or sometimes used as a synonym for Price. Costs are actually a function of the accounting scheme in use and are xpplicitly or implicitly defined by it.
the amount of actual or notional expenditure of money incurred on, or attributed to, a specific object or activity.
the outlay or expenditure (as of money, effort or sacrifice) made to achieve an object or advantage
Amount of expenditure (actual or notional) to a specific activity or unit
The dollar amount of cash expended, resources used, property transferred, services performed, or liability incurred inconsideration of goods and services received.
In economics, business, and accounting, a cost is the value of inputs that have been used up to produce something, and hence are not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost. In this case, money is the input that is gone in order to acquire the thing.