Polyglot Dictionary

at all costs

/æt ɔːl kɔːsts/

noun B1
N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. a toda costa

    • We must avoid delay at all costs.

      Debemos evitar el retraso a toda costa.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

coast

Spanish costa covers two unrelated English words: "at all costs" uses the idiomatic sense of cost/expense; a coast is the land along the sea.

Práctica

1 ¿Qué significa at all costs?

2 Completa el espacio en blanco: We must avoid delay at all ___.

3 ¿Qué gráfico de características corresponde a at all costs?

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