cost
What you spend
Cost is what must be given up to obtain something—usually money, but also time, effort, or sacrifice.
The cost of a car is its price; the cost of success might be years of work.
Costs in business are expenses: operating costs, labor costs.
To cost is to require payment or loss: The mistake cost him his job.
At all costs means regardless of what must be sacrificed.
Amount owed, written
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- tollFee for passage
- levyCompulsory government charge
- duesRegular membership payments
overhead · outlay · disbursement · incurred · deductible · recurring · maintenance · upfront
Plan for spending
- allocationDistribution of shares
- fundsAvailable financial resources
- spendingOutlaying of funds
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
capital · fiscal · accounting · ledger · treasury · expenditure · cashflow · bottom line
Money owed another
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
- strainExcessive stretching force
- pressureForce upon contact
- weightMeasure of heaviness
hardship · toll · encumbrance · obligation · sacrifice · trade-off · drawback · downside
Added percentage for profit
- retailSales to end users
- wholesaleBulk sales to merchants
- discountReduced price offered
- bargainFavorable purchase price
sticker · tag · fee · charge · rate · tariff · quotation · estimate
Being without something
- forfeitLose through violation
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
- trade-offExchange requiring sacrifice
One who acquires goods
import · export · merchant · trade · pricing · competitive · comparison shopping · supply chain
Degree of importance
- benefitAdvantage or gain
- utilityFunctional worth or purpose
- economicalUsing resources sparingly
- savingsAccumulated money kept
return · bang for buck · value proposition · investment · payoff · worthwhile · priceless · invaluable
bill
Amount owed, written
dues · overhead · outlay · disbursement · incurred · deductible · recurring · maintenance · upfront · out-of-pocket
budget
Plan for spending
- allocationDistribution of shares
- fundsAvailable financial resources
- spendingOutlaying of funds
appropriation · capital · fiscal · accounting · ledger · treasury · expenditure · cashflow · bottom line · profit margin
debt
Money owed another
weight · hardship · toll · encumbrance · obligation · sacrifice · trade-off · drawback · downside · penalty
markup
Added percentage for profit
bargain · sticker · tag · fee · charge · rate · tariff · quotation · estimate · listing
loss
Being without something
- forfeitLose through violation
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
consumer
One who acquires goods
wholesale · import · export · merchant · trade · pricing · competitive · comparison shopping · supply chain · markup
worth
Degree of importance
- benefitAdvantage or gain
- utilityFunctional worth or purpose
- economicalUsing resources sparingly
savings · return · bang for buck · value proposition · investment · payoff · worthwhile · priceless · invaluable · overpriced
- commercetrade, banking, merchant, imports, sales
- expensesexpenses, expense, expenditure, rent, bill
- word ladder wordshead, tail, lead, gold, cold
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
- money termscash, credit, debt, income, wages
- sunk costUnrecoverable past outlay
- cost of livingPrice of basic necessities
- at all costsWithout any limits
- at any costDespite all obstacles
- costs an arm and a legExtremely expensive expression
- no costWithout monetary exchange