cost sb £10/S20 etc That sofa cost me nearly $1000.
cost a fortune informal (=cost a lot of
money) The car has cost a fortune to
repair.
it costs Ј10/$20/a tot etc to do sth It
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costs about £500 to fly to America. costing - cost - have cost
Don't say 'it costs very expensive'. Say
it is expensive or it costs a lot.
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Qhow much /hau mAtJ/ spoken say how much to ask what the price or cost of something is: How much is that table? I That's a beautiful ring - how much did you pay for it? I By the way, how much does it cost to use the swimming pool?
Don't say 'how much costs this?' or 'how much cost was it?' Say how much does this cost? or how much did it cost?
be /bi:; \v] if something is £100, $1000 etc, that is how much it costs - use this especially when you are asking or replying to a question about the cost of something be Ј5/$20/a lot of money etc 'That's a nice shirt - how much was it?" "It was only five pounds." I I can't remember how much it cost. I think it was around
$400.
how much something would cost if it was sold
value /'vaeljui; [n C/U] the amount of money that something expensive, rare, or old would cost if it was sold - use this to talk about things like houses, cars, jewellery, paintings, or furniture + of The value of the painting was estimated at $500,000.
increase/fall in value Some fine wines increase in value as they get older.
be worth /bi: 'W3:r6/ if something is worth £10, $100 etc, that is how much money it would cost if it was sold: How much is your ring worth? be worth $500/Ј10 etc I guess their
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rising prices (=prices that keep increasing) Football fans have been complaining about rising ticket prices. oity/ood/house etc prices House prices have come down a lot in recent years.
/К Don't say 'the price is expensive' or 'the price is cheap'. Say it is expensive or it is cheap.
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house must be worth about £500,000. I That old piano can't be worth more than $200.
to ask for a particular amount of money for something
charge /tja;rd3/ [u I/T) if someone charges an amount of money, that is how much you must pay them for providing a service or doing work for you charge Ј10/$50 etc He charges $200 an hour. ! The engineer charged £70 for labour and £45 for parts.
charge sb Ј10/$50 How much are they charging you for the repairs? \ The bank will charge its customers 6% interest from next week.
ask <a:sk||aesk/ [и T] to want an amount of money for something that you are selling, especially when other people think the price is too high
ask £100/53000 etc for sth I don't believe he's asking £2000 for that old car.
Qwant /wont||wa:nt/ [t> T] especially spoken to want an amount of money for something you are selling or for doing work for someone
want £20/550 etc for sth How much do you want for the video recorder?
a statement that says how much something will probably cost
estimate /'est^tj [n С] a statement that says how much money it will probably cost to build or repair something: The final cost was £2000 higher than the original
estimate.
+/or I've asked the builders to give us an estimate for fixing the roof
quotation also quote informal /kwsu-
1eiJ<m, kwsut/ [n C] a written statement of exactly how much money something will cost: Ge/ a few quotations from different firms so you can compare prices.
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to count numbers, objects etc in order to find the total
count/count up /kaunt, ,kaont лр/ [v T] to find the total number of things or people in a group by counting them alclass="underline" Katherine counted her money. There was almost $50 left. I Count up the number of calories you haue each day. I The teacher was counting the children as they got onto the bus.
add up jxd лр j [phrasal verb T] to put several numbers or amounts together and calculate the total
add up sth When we added up the receipts we realized we had spent too much.
add sth up The books cost quite a lot of money, when you added them all up.
keep count /,ki:p kaunt/ to keep a record, either on paper or in your memory, of numbers or amounts that increase over a period of time, so that you always know what the total is: I don't know what the score was. I wasn't keeping count. + of She was trying to keep count of how many stations they'd passed.
to calculate an amount or price
calculate /'kslkjSjleit/ [v T] to find out