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How to pronounce costs in English?

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Type of reimbursement

Examples of costs

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The full costs of our Balkanization are impossible to quantify, but they add up.
From the stltoday.com
In effect, workers will pay medical inflation costs if they exceed expectations.
From the thenewstribune.com
Any money left after those costs was going to help with the 2011-12 school year.
From the thenewstribune.com
Mt. Baker Ski Area lift ticket and lesson costs are in addition to the bus fees.
From the thenewstribune.com
For example, you're told that as head honcho of a company you need to cut costs.
From the usatoday.com
Ditto for $2 billion in federal travel costs by promoting more teleconferencing.
From the washingtontimes.com
Changing habits is hard, so it may help to understand the costs of not changing.
From the sacbee.com
Global food costs climbed to a record last month, a United Nations index showed.
From the bloomberg.com
Global food costs rose to an all-time high in February, the United Nations said.
From the bloomberg.com
More examples
  • Be priced at; "These shoes cost $100"
  • The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
  • Monetary value: the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
  • Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job"
  • Price: value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
  • (costing) cost accounting
  • In business, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something, and hence is not available for use anymore. In economics, a cost is an alternative that is given up as a result of a decision. ...
  • The Cost is the sixth studio album by The Frames, released in Ireland on Plateau Records on September 22, 2006. The album was released worldwide on ANTI- on February 20, 2007. The album exhibits a sound more like that of For the Birds than their more recent album Burn the Maps. ...
  • The Cost was a San Francisco Bay Area band active between 1999 and 2003. They released an EP on New Disorder Records, a split 7" with Canadian punk band d.b.s., an album on Lookout! Records, and were featured on several compilations over the years. ...