Cost
Cost noun - The amount of money that is demanded as payment for something.
Usage example: we can't afford the cost of a house just yet, so we're renting an apartment
Figure is a synonym for cost in price topic. In some cases you can use "Figure" instead the word "Cost" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like expense.
Figure
Figure noun - The amount of money that is demanded as payment for something.
Usage example: a number of the paintings at the auction sold at figures far higher than had been estimated
Cost is a synonym for figure in price topic. You can use "Cost" instead the word "Figure" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as numeral.
How words are described
| human | human cost | human figure |
| similar | similar cost | similar figure |
| original | original cost | original figure |
| reasonable | reasonable cost | reasonable figure |
| Other adjectives: small, actual, real, large, little. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Once you give enough money to Malo (which doesn't even come close to the amount needed to buy one pack of bombs from the Castle Town shop — go figure), he buys out the shop, which reduces the cost of items immensely.
Source: Teaser Equipment - Since Takara was needed to front part of the cost, Hasbro agreed... only for Takara to market the figure as Masterforce's Ginrai, not Optimus.
Source: Executive Meddling / Toys - He consistently reminds himself that the one time he ignored his "responsibility" it cost him his father figure.
Source: Single-Issue Psychology
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Figure and Cost. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cost/figure
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