cost money

idiom

informal
: to be expensive
New equipment costs money.

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Reducing the threat from wildfires instead requires a suite of approaches that will take time, cost money, and create new political friction points. Umair Irfan, Vox, 15 Jan. 2025 People making decisions become imaginative when faced with actual challenges that cost money. Bill Conerly, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024 For example, community members couldn’t advertise events that cost money, unless those events were for nonprofits. Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025 That means retrofitting roofs and siding, adding sprinkler systems, clearing vegetation and undertaking a host of other measures that cost money and require constant vigilance. Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cost money

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“Cost money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cost%20money. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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