Definition of At any cost

1. Adverb. Regardless of the cost involved. "He wanted to save her life at all cost"

Exact synonyms: At All Costs, At Any Expense

Lexicographical Neighbors of At Any Cost

at a loss
at a loss(p)
at a loss for words
at a low price
at a lower place
at a moment's notice
at a pinch
at a premium
at a rate of knots
at a stand
at a time
at all
at all costs
at all hours
at an equal rate
at any cost (current term)
at any expense
at any rate
at arm's length
at bat
at bats
at bay
at bay(p)
at best
at bottom
at call
at church every time the doors are open
at close range
at cost
at cross-purposes

Literary usage of At any cost

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"... could be thrown into the fort without difficulty, made its possession, at any cost, a matter of importance to the Federal force. TJ UNITED STATES. ..."

2. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"Moreover, it is obviously impossible, at any cost, even to approach the scale on which nature acts. With these considerations in view it was decided that ..."

3. On the Right of the British Line by Gilbert Nobbs (1917)
""at any cost." LIKE RATS IN A TRAP T HAD hardly closed my eyes when a runner from headquarters came hurrying along the line, and was directed to where I was ..."

4. The Politics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1883)
"It is only natural slaves who deserve to be ruled at any cost. And if we suppose the case of a State enjoying a good polity but situated in an isolated ..."

5. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1888)
"While in favor of maintaining the Union at any cost. Gen. Morgan was opposed to interference with the state institution of the south. ..."

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