Plural of cost
regular plural
The plural of cost is costs.
Forms of cost
| Singular | cost /kɒst/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | costs /ˈkɔsts/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Costs in a sentence
- the packaging of home-delivered products now accounts for 30% of the solid rubbish the US generates annually, and the cardboard alone costs 1bn trees.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
- We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
- We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.From the entry unit
- The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs.From the entry hold
- I want to buy one that costs somewhere between forty and fifty dollars.From the entry between
Meaning of cost
- verb To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- verb To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- verb To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
Questions about the plural of cost
- What is the plural of cost?
- The plural of cost is costs.
- Is cost countable?
- Cost is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cost (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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