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COSTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("costs" is a kind of...):
reimbursement (compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc.)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb cost
Context examples:
By exploiting the benign chemistry of plant tissue scaffolds, researchers wrote, we could address the many limitations and high costs of synthetic, complex composite materials.
(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)
Drugs are available to treat HCV, but costs can reach tens of thousands of dollars.
(Allergy drug inhibits hepatitis C, NIH)
But enhancements to deep ocean drilling techniques and decreasing costs of DNA sequencing have for the first time made it possible to unravel the secrets of the underworld.
(Researchers Create New Model of Ecosystem Hidden Beneath Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Costs that can be identified with a particular project or program.
(Direct Costs, NCI Thesaurus)
Costs that are incurred for common or joint expenses at an institution by grant or contract activities which cannot be specifically identified with a particular user.
(Facilities and Administrative Costs, NCI Thesaurus)
Medicare pays for hospital stays, medical services, and some prescription drugs but people who receive Medicare must pay part of their healthcare costs.
(Medicare, NCI Dictionary)
A joint federal and state program that provides assistance with healthcare costs to people with low income and limited resources.
(Medicaid, NCI Thesaurus)
It provides protection if you pay high drug costs or have unexpected prescription drug bills.
(Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Analyses relate the difference in therapeutic benefits to the difference in costs between treatment alternatives.
(Pharmacoeconomic Study, NCI Thesaurus)
But, with your favor, friend, I must gather my arrows again, for while a shaft costs a penny a poor man can scarce leave them sticking in wayside stumps.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
