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at the cost of

at the cost of preposition: having as a negative consequence.

Preposition

at the cost of

  1. Having as a negative consequence.

at the cost of meaning in Kannada and Arabic

at the cost of in Kannada

ನಷ್ಟ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು

at the cost of in Arabic

Translations
عَلَى حِسَابِ ʕalā ḥisābi

Synonyms of at the cost of

Questions about at the cost of

What does at the cost of mean?
At the cost of means having as a negative consequence.
What is at the cost of in Kannada?
At the cost of in Kannada is ನಷ್ಟ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು. See At the cost of meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is at the cost of?
At the cost of is a preposition.

Words near at the cost of in the dictionary

  1. at the best of times
  2. at the bottom of
  3. at the bottom of the pile
  4. at the coal face
  5. at the corner
  6. at the cost of
  7. at the disposal of
  8. at the door
  9. at the door of
  10. at the double
  11. at the drop of a hat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: at the cost of (page history and authors); at the cost of (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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