Cost and Sacrifice

Cost

Cost noun - The loss or penalty involved in achieving a goal.
Usage example: they won the war, but at a terrible cost in lives

Sacrifice is a synonym for cost in loss topic. In some cases you can use "Sacrifice" instead a noun "Cost", when it comes to topics like penalty, transactions.

Nearby Words: costly, costless, costing, costliness

Sacrifice

Sacrifice noun - Something offered to a god.

Cost is a synonym for sacrifice in transactions topic. You can use "Cost" instead a noun "Sacrifice".

How words are described

full full cost full sacrifice
original original cost original sacrifice
true true cost true sacrifice
small small cost small sacrifice
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, massive, large, great, huge, little, potential, personal, moral, incredible, apparent, tremendous, monthly.

Common collocations

friend cost friend sacrifice friend
soul cost soul sacrifice soul
arm cost arm sacrifice arm
energy cost energy sacrifice energy
Other words: life, family, career, chance, time, way, health, sanity, friends, thousands, lives, millions.

Both words in one sentence

  • Franchise / Halo Ultimately, the end of their ecumene could be interpreted as a Heroic Sacrifice or the cost of their foolishness/sins, depending on how idealistic/cynical one is.
  • Another criticized decision of Cospedal was eliminating the wages of representatives in the regional parliament, presenting it both as a sacrifice and a cost-saving measure.
  • Lelouch makes the ultimate sacrifice, even at the cost of his own reputation, more or less inverting the Messiah's own Heroic Sacrifice.
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