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equipment
Noun
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Your equipment is the things that you use to do a job or sport.
Soccer is a popular game because you need very little equipment to play--just a ball and an open space.
The soldiers had to carry all their equipment on their backs.
The computer equipment was old and often broke down.
cost
Noun
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The cost of something is the price that a person pays for it.
What is the cost of the car?
cost
Verb
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When you say that a thing costs, you say that one must pay in order to buy it.
That diamond ring costs a great deal of money.
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One may say that an action costs a certain bad result.
It cost me my job when I broke the machine.
To commit a crime will cost you.
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When you estimate a cost or set a cost, you cost a thing.
The repair man costed the work to fix the car.