coût
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See also: cout
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French coust, from Old French cust, equivalent to a deverbal from coûter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ku/, (nonstandard) /kut/
Audio (Toulouse): (file) - Rhymes: -u
- Homophones: cou, coud, couds, coup, coups, cous, coûts
Noun
[edit]coût m (plural coûts)
- cost, price
- Le coût de la vie augmente sans cesse.
- The cost of living is increasing endlessly.
- 2021 July 1, “En Syrie, le quotidien est devenu si cher que « tout le monde est en colère »”, in middleeasteye.net[1]:
- En raison de cette dépréciation, le coût des denrées alimentaires, qui était déjà à un niveau record, a augmenté de 30 % selon le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) de l’ONU.
- Due to this depreciation, the cost of foodstuffs—which was already at a record level—rose by 30% according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “coût”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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