Something of value, usually an amount of money, given up in exchange for something else, usually goods or services. All expenses are' cost's, but not all costs are expenses. (An expense is the cost of resources used to produce revenue.) As a verb, cost means to estimate the amount of money needed to produce a product or perform a service.
Barry Goldsmith
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