costs
Because it is a word with a single syllable, costs is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofcosts
- To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
Example: "It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world."
- To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
Example: "Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives."
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To calculate or estimate a price.
Example: "I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand."
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
Example: "The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago."
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
Example: "Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health."
- Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- A rib; a side.
- A cottise.
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