(v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
(v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
(v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
(v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
(v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(3) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(5) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(6) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(7) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
(8) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(9) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(10) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(12) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(13) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(14) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
(15) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(16) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(17) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(18) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
(19) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(20) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
Dost
Definition:
(2d pers. sing. pres.) of Do.
Example Sentences:
(1) In other reports, three civilians died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in southern Uruzgan province, said Dost Mohammad Nayab, spokesman for the provincial governor.
(2) Wolfsburg scored twice in 11 minutes through Bas Dost and Max Kruse to beat PSV Eindhoven 2-0 in their Champions League game on Wednesday to go two points clear at the top of Group B with their second home win of the competition.
(3) The Dutch levelled on 67 minutes when their captain, Wesley Sneijder, slotted in after Daryl Janmaat’s shot was saved - and thought they had won it in stoppage time with a header from the substitute Bas Dost, which was ruled out for what looked minimal contact with the defender.
(4) De Bruyne, Wolfsburg’s best player of the season with 10 league goals and 20 assists, drilled in his first German Cup goal after 33 minutes and before Dortmund could recover, Bas Dost’s header five minutes later made it 3-1.
(5) Shakespeare said a long time ago, ‘thou dost protest too much’, and there should be nothing to protest about, unless you’re worried about something,” he said.
(6) The Anderlecht striker Aleksandar Mitrovic is a serious target, efforts to sign QPR’s Charlie Austin have so far come to nothing and the Wolfsburg frontman Bas Dost has also been in their sights for some time.
(7) Leigh Daynes CEO, Doctors of the World UK Guido Dost director, Johanniter International Assistance Jan Egeland secretary general, Norwegian Refugee Council Rev John L McCullough president and CEO, Church World Service Justin Forsyth chief executive, Save the Children David Miliband president and CEO, International Rescue Committee Manuel Patrouillard executive director, Handicap International Federation Sven Seifert executive director of the board, Arche noVa Henrik Stubkjaer general secretary, DanChurchAid Liv Tørres secretary general, Norwegian People's Aid Marie-Pierre Caley CEO, Acted Neal Keny-Guyer CEO, Mercy Corps
(8) Shooting too high at one end, then getting back to dispossess Bas Dost on the edge of the United penalty area moments later, Schweinsteiger was everywhere in the first half.
(9) It was Bas Dost, though, who had given Holland the lead, the Wolfsburg striker making the most of the freedom he was afforded in the Wales penalty area to meet Daryl Janmaat’s deep cross with a far-post header that Wayne Hennessey was unable to keep out.
(10) The Dutch striker Dost scored his first Champions League goal a minute after the restart and the in-form Kruse added another with a glancing header in the 57th minute.
(11) Photograph: Laurence Cendrowicz Verily, my lady, with thy Timotei-sponsored earnestness and thy 15th-century Milfwear, thou dost bring the lulz.
(12) Wolfsburg were stronger after the restart and the 26-year-old Dost, who has scored six times in the league this season, tapped in on the rebound after Jeroen Zoet had saved a shot from Josuha Guilavogui.
(13) Wolfsburg’s Bas Dost and Max Kruse do enough to see off PSV Eindhoven Read more The sight of Phil Jones launching a hopeful high ball to Martial that missed the Frenchman was hardly the best augury that United might be about to find an equaliser with precision football.
(14) The elimination half-life (and also the other pharmacokinetic parameters as inaugurated by Dost) was the same for all the heterozygotes for both types of galactosemia almost without exception, and for the healthy cs, children in the acute stages of hepatitis and patients with cirrhosis of the liver was prolonged 2 to 5 times the normal.
(15) They received no encouragement whatsoever in their inquiries over Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette but remain on the trail of Wolfsburg’s Bas Dost and are keeping close tabs on developments with their former striker Andy Carroll, now at West Ham, and West Brom’s Saido Berahino, another player they have watched for some time.
(16) The Taliban had kidnapped the aid workers and were demanding the release of some of their colleagues in government custody,” Dost Mohammad Nayab told AFP on Saturday.
(17) In 1968, Dost published a special model function by which the problems associated with the general model function can be circumvented.
(18) The metabolism of sulfamethazine (SMZ), which is acetylated by a binodally distributed enzyme, and procainamide (PA) was compared in 21 normal volunteers, each given a single oral dosted metabolites, N-acetyl-procainamide (NAPA) and Ac-SMZ, were measured.
(19) We report on the first pregnancies achieved at our clinic following direct oocyte-sperm-transfer (DOST).
(20) Set free by Dost, the Holland captain found himself one-on-one with Owain Fon Williams and there was only going to be one winner.