cost money

idiom

informal
: to be expensive
New equipment costs money.

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Rosters cost money, and the major football-playing schools have the donors and the collectives to acquire the talent. Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025 But SpaceX’s success required long experimental phases and lots of exploded rockets, all of which cost money. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025 Only Eleven Labs and Resemble AI cost money — respectively $5 and $1 — to create a custom voice clone. Kevin Collier, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2025 Bank branches with lobbies and tellers cost money to operate. Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 22 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 1 May. 2025.

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