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CIFI

CIFI is the initialism of cost.

CIFI is the initialism of certified information forensics investigator.

Meaning of cost

Noun (1)

cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)

  1. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
    • The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
  2. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
    • Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.

Noun (2)

cost (plural costs)

  1. (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
  2. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Noun (3)

cost (plural costs)

  1. (obsolete) A rib; a side.
    • betwixt the costs of a ship1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene...
  2. A cottise.

See all 12 meanings of cost

Forms of CIFI

pluralCIFIs

Questions about CIFI

What is CIFI the initialism of?
CIFI is the initialism of cost.

Words near CIFI in the dictionary

  1. CIFC
  2. CIFE
  3. Cifelli
  4. Cifellis
  5. CIFF
  6. CIFI
  7. CIFIs
  8. CIFS
  9. cig
  10. cig kofte
  11. cigalike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CIFI (page history and authors); cost (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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