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Definition of At any cost
1. Adverb. Regardless of the cost involved. "He wanted to save her life at all cost"
Lexicographical Neighbors of At Any Cost
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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