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the price tag you see plus every silent one you don't
means The amount of money, effort, time, or sacrifice required to obtain or do something.
from From Old French 'coster' or 'couster,' meaning to cost, which descends from Latin 'constare' — literally 'to stand together' or 'stand firm,' and by extension 'to be fixed at a price.' That Latin verb is built from 'com-' (together) and 'stare' (to stand), making 'cost' a distant cousin of words like 'stable' and 'constant.' The idea is that a price is what something 'stands at' — where its value comes to rest.
- hidden kind
- opportunity cost counts roads never taken
- sunk truth
- already-spent money should never sway decisions
- word root
- from Latin constare, to stand firm
- economists love
- everything has a cost, even free things
apollo 11 mission — nasa spent $280 million in 1969 (about $2.8 billion in today's dollars) to land humans on the moon
central artery tunnel boston — the big dig project cost $24.3 billion (1991-2007), making it the most expensive highway project in us history
international space station — total estimated cost of $150 billion across all participating nations since 1998