Cost and Sum

Cost

Cost noun - A payment made in the course of achieving a result.

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Sum and cost are semantically related In some cases you can use "Sum" instead a noun "Cost".

Nearby Words: costly, costless, costing, costliness

Sum noun - A complete amount of something.

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Cost and sum are semantically related in amount of money topic. Sometimes you can use "Cost" instead a noun "Sum".

exorbitant	exorbitant cost	exorbitant sum
low	low cost	low sum
equal	equal cost	equal sum
total	total cost	total sum
Other adjectives: original, considerable, reasonable, small, entire, real, massive, large, great, enormous, huge, staggering, decent, possible, hefty, ruinous, significant, highest, greater, said, higher, monthly.

A subtrope of Rewarding Vandalism, where when you break something in a Video Game you receive a sum of money equal to the total cost of the damage you've caused.

Source: You Break It, You Profit
Then it goes and inverts it at the end by having Blackadder's newly acquired nasty behavior cost him a knightship and a large sum of money.

Source: Being Good Sucks
In zero sum games, cooperation is a bad idea, since any one player can only gain at the cost of any or all the other players.

Source: Balance Between Good and Evil

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