Cost vs Penalty - What's the difference?
cost | penalty | Synonyms |
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.
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(heraldry) A cottise.
A legal sentence.
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
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(finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
(football) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
(ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
As nouns the difference between cost and penalty
is that cost is manner; way; means; available course; contrivance while penalty is a legal sentence.As a verb cost
is to incur a charge; to require payment of a price.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
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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
Statistics
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English
(wikipedia penalty)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(penalties)- The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
- Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
- A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.