stand-alone cost

stand Verb

— When you stand, your body is at rest and supported only by your feet. I stand in the bus when there are no seats. He stood in line at the store for a long time.

stand Noun

— A stand is a position or opinion that you plan to defend and not move from. — You put something on a stand to keep it off the ground or floor. The clock was on the night stand next to the bed.

alone Adjective

— If someone is alone, they are not with other people. She looked around to make sure that she was alone before opening the desk. — If someone is alone, they have no friends or people they know. He felt very alone in Canada and wanted to go home.

alone Adverb

— If you do something alone, you do it without other people. She went walking alone because she wanted to think. — When you talk about something alone, you mean only that thing. It will take weeks for the planning alone. We can't open it. The owner alone has the key.

cost Noun

— The cost of something is the price that a person pays for it. What is the cost of the car?

cost Verb

— 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. — 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. — When you estimate a cost or set a cost, you cost a thing. The repair man costed the work to fix the car.