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AT ANY COST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at any cost mean? 

AT ANY COST (adverb)
  The adverb AT ANY COST has 1 sense:

1. regardless of the cost involvedplay

  Familiarity information: AT ANY COST used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AT ANY COST (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Regardless of the cost involved

Synonyms:

at all costs; at any cost; at any expense

Context example:

he wanted to save her life at all cost


 Context examples 


Berks’s orders evidently were to close at any cost, and so make use of his extra weight and strength before the superior condition of his antagonist could have time to tell.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He would have the truth at any cost, though it was his desire to retain his faith in the marvel he had never seen.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Thy father was brave man," Ebbits acknowledged, with the air of one who will keep peace in the house at any cost.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)



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