At any cost

Definition

cost /kɒst; US kↄ:st/ v ( pt, pp cost or, in sense ၃, costed ) ၁။ အဖိုးက်သင့္သည္၊ ေပးရသည္။ ကုန္က်သည္။ These chairs cost £40 each. ❍ The meal cost us about £30. ❍ The scheme is costing the taxpayer 10 billion pounds a year. ❍ How much does it cost? ❍ It costs too much. ❍ The hospital will cost an estimated £2 million to build. ၂။ (က) ဆံုး႐ံႈးေစသည္။ နစ္နာေစသည္။ Dangerous driving could cost you your life. ❍ The scandal cost her career (ie resulted in her having to resign or being dismissed). (ခ) အနစ္နာခံရသည္။ ရင္းရသည္။ All this is costing me a great deal of time. ❍ Her irresponsible behaviour cost her father many sleepless nights. ၃။ ( pt, pp costed ) ( commerce ) ခန္႔မွန္းတန္ဖိုး တြက္ခ်က္သည္။ ကုန္က်စရိတ္ ခန္႔မွန္းသည္။ The project has only been roughly costed. ❍ Their accountants have costed the scheme at $ 8.1 million. See also COSTING ၄။ ( infml ) (တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္အဖို႔) ေဈးမ်ားသည္။ You can have the de luxe model if you like, but it'll cost you. n ၁။ (က) [U] တန္ဖိုးေငြ။ က်သင့္ေငြ။ the high cost of car repairs ❍ bear the full cost of the damage ❍ I was forced to abandon the project on the grounds of cost. ❍ We made a small charge for parking to cover the cost of hiring the hall. ❍ A new computer system has been installed at a cost of £80,000. ❍ a low cost scheme ❍ a cost-conscious business ❍ make cost-saving cutbacks. စရိတ္ေခြၽတာေရးလုပ္သည္။ ❍ PRICE (ခ) [C usu pl ] စရိတ္။ the costs involved in starting a business ❍ labour/ operating costs ❍ The industry will have to pass its increased costs on to the consumer (ie charge more for its product). ၂။ costs [pl] ( law ) တရားစရိတ္။ pay a £1000 fine and £300 costs. ၃။ [U, sing] (ျဖစ္ေျမာက္ ေအာင္ျမင္ဖို႔အတြက္ ေပးဆပ္ရေသာ) အနစ္နာခံရမႈ၊ ဆံုး႐ံႈးမႈ၊ စြန္႔လႊတ္မႈ။ the cost in time and labour ❍ the environmental cost of nuclear power ❍ The battle was won at (a) great cost in human lives. ❍ She saved him from drowning but at the cost of her own life . သူသည္ ေရနစ္သူကို အသက္ႏွင့္လဲ ၍ ကယ္လိုက္သည္။ ❏ at all cost/ costs [ IDM ] ျဖစ္တဲ့နည္းနဲ႔။ We must prevent them from finding it at all costs. ❏ at any cost [ IDM ] (ဘယ္လို)အေျခအေနမ်ဳိးျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ They are determined to succeed at any cost. ❏ at cost [ IDM ] အရင္းအတိုင္း။ goods sold at cost. ❏ cost-benefit n [U] ( economics ) ကုန္က်စရိတ္ႏွင့္ အက်ဳိး အျမတ္ ဆက္စပ္ၾကည့္မႈ။ cost-benefit analysis. ❏ cost- cutting n [U] အသံုးစရိတ္ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ျခင္း။ a cost-cutting exercise/ measure ❍ Emphasis on efficiency and cost-cutting has resulted in greater centralization. ❏ cost sb dear [ IDM ] အထိနာေစသည္။ That one little mistake cost him dear and he went on to lose the game. ❏ cost-effective adj တြက္ေျခကိုက္ေသာ။ It isn't cost-effective to build cars in such small quantities. cost-effectiveness n [U] ❏ costing n [C] ( commerce ) ခန္႔မွန္းကုန္က်စရိတ္။ a detailed costing of the project ❍ long-term costings. ❏ the cost of living n [sing] လူေနမႈစရိတ္။ a rise in the cost of living ❍ the high cost of living in the capital. ❏ cost sth out [ PHRV ] ကုန္က်စရိတ္ အေသးစိတ္ ခန္႔မွန္း တြက္ခ်က္သည္။ ❏ cost price n [U] ( commerce ) ေဈးရင္း။ Compare SELLING PRICE ❏ to one's cost [ IDM ] ခံရဖူးမွ။ He's an excellent tennis player, as I know to my cost (ie as I know because I have been beaten by him).

Examples

1. [cost of] : A rise in interest rates will increase the cost of borrowing.
2. [cover the cost of something] : We need money to cover the cost of heating.
3. [the cost of doing something] : The cost of rebuilding the theatre will be £13 million.
4. [at a cost of] : We’re organizing a trip to London
5. at a cost of £15 per head (=for each person).
6. [cost to] : This scheme helps homeless people at no cost to the taxpayer.
7. [cost of] : The serious environmental costs of the new road network
8. [cost to] : They decided to divorce
9. whatever the cost to their children.
10. [at a cost of] : The plant closed down at a cost of over 1
11. 000 jobs.
12. [the social/human costs of something] : The social costs of unemployment
13. Higher fuel prices will lead to increased costs for car owners.
14. Housing and office costs are very high in Tokyo.
15. [cut/reduce costs] : New technology has helped us to cut costs.
16. At these prices
17. we are not even covering our costs.
18. Manufacturing costs
19. He was ordered to pay a fine of £250 plus £100 costs.