Cost vs Buy - What's the difference?
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Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
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, title= A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
To incur a charge; to require payment of a price.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:though it cost me ten nights' watchings
(label) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
To calculate or estimate a price.
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(obsolete) A rib; a side.
* Ben Jonson
(heraldry) A cottise.
To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
* Benjamin Franklin
To obtain by some sacrifice.
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 23
To bribe.
To be equivalent to in value.
(informal) to accept as true; to believe
To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)
(poker slang) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
As nouns the difference between cost and buy
is that cost is manner; way; means; available course; contrivance or cost can be amount of money, time, etc that is required or used or cost can be (obsolete) a rib; a side while buy is something which is bought; a purchase.As verbs the difference between cost and buy
is that cost is to incur a charge; to require payment of a price while buy is to obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.cost
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) dialectal . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- at all costs (= "by all means")
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from , see below.Noun
(wikipedia cost) (en noun)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Derived terms
{{der3, appraisal cost , at cost , carbon cost , cost and freight , cost avoidance , cost-benefit , cost benefit analysis , cost center , cost control , cost cutting , cost-effective , cost-efficient , cost function , costless , costly , cost objective , cost of business, cost of doing business, cost of sales , cost of living , cost of money , cost overrun , cost per avalable seat mile , cost price , cost-push , design to cost , flotation cost , landed cost , low-cost , marginal cost , opportunity cost , private cost , sunk cost , unexpired cost , unit cost , variable cost}}Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .Verb
See Usage notes.Usage notes
The past tense and past participle is cost'' in the sense of "this computer cost''' me £600", but ''costed'' in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was ' costed at $1 million."Derived terms
* cost an arm and a leg * cost a pretty penny * cost the earth * how much does it costEtymology 4
Noun
(en noun)- betwixt the costs of a ship
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Verb
- Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
- Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
