different between cost vs mandate

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?st/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?k?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin c?st?, from Latin c?nst? (“stand together”).

Verb

cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)

1. To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

2. To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
3. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
   • 1977, Star Wars

     LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."

4. To calculate or estimate a price.

Usage notes

The past tense and past participle is cost in the sense of "this computer cost me £600", but costed in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was costed at $1 million."

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Etymology 2

From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.

Noun

cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)

1. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

2. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

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Etymology 3

From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).

Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.

Noun

cost (plural costs)

1. (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
2. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Derived terms

• at all costs

Related terms

• costen
• costning
• needs-cost

Etymology 4

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.

Noun

cost (plural costs)

1. (obsolete) A rib; a side.

   • betwixt the costs of a ship

2. (heraldry) A cottise.

Anagrams

• C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot

Catalan

Noun

cost m (plural costs or costos)

1. cost

Derived terms

• preu de cost

Related terms

• costar

Manx

Noun

cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)

1. charge (monetary)

Derived terms

• costal

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to choose”).

Akin to Old Saxon kost?n (“to try, tempt”), Old High German kost?n (“to taste, test, try by tasting”) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (“to try, tempt”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (kustus, “test”), Old English cystan (“to spend, get the value of, procure”), Old English cyst (“proof, test, trial; choice”), ??osan (“to choose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kost/

Noun

cost m

1. option, choice; possibility
2. condition, manner, way

Declension

Adjective

cost

1. chosen, choice
2. tried, proven; excellent

Declension

Old French

Etymology

From Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (at a price)”).

Noun

cost m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost)

1. cost; financial outlay

Related terms

• coster

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kost]

Etymology 1

Verb

cost

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of costa

Etymology 2

Back-formation from costa

Noun

cost n (uncountable)

1. cost

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English cost.

Noun

cost m or f (plural costau)

1. cost
2. expense

Mutation

English

Etymology

Noun is borrowed from Latin mand?tum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mand?tus, past participle of mand?re (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Compare command, commend, demand, remand.

The verb is from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

• IPA^(key): /?mæn.de?t/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /?mæn.de?t/, /mæn?de?t/

Noun

mandate (plural mandates)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
2. (politics) The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
   • 2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press (?ISBN), page 30

     John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.

3. A papal rescript.
4. (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.

Translations

Verb

mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated)

1. to authorize
2. to make mandatory

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Further reading

• mandate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mandate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: mandatent, mandates

Verb

mandate

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandater
2. third-person singular present indicative of mandater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mandater
4. second-person singular imperative of mandater

Italian

Noun

mandate f

1. plural of mandata

Verb

mandate

1. second-person plural present of mandare
2. second-person plural imperative of mandare
3. feminine plural past participle of mandare

Anagrams

• damante

Latin

Participle

mand?te

1. vocative masculine singular of mand?tus

Spanish

Verb

mandate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mandatar.