cost

1. (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.Examples: "This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30."; "It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world."; "Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…]."ditransitivetransitive

2. (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.Examples: "Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives."; "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."; "though it cost me ten nights' watchings"ditransitivetransitive

3. (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.Examples: "I can give you the names, but it'll cost you."; "That's going to cost you!"colloquialtransitive