Timeline for how to distinguish "cost" from "price"
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| Nov 15, 2019 at 21:55 | comment | added | Quidam | In India, there are a lot of differences with standard English. | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 15:20 | comment | added | jimsug | @maulik it may be interchangeable when you're asking for the monetary value (eg what is the price/cost of something) but is it grammatical when using it in a declarative sentence, eg I paid the cost/price of the television, which was $X | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 8:42 | comment | added | Maulik V | @Catija surprisingly, in India, it's all valid if you ask 'cost' instead of 'price' for a 4K TV! Trust me, I just bought it! :) | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 19:45 | comment | added | Catija | The problem with this use is that, if I ask the car dealership selling the car "What is the cost", as an AmE speaker, that means, "what did the dealership have to pay for it", while "What is the price?" means what do I have to pay for it. This is why I have the section in my answer about the concept of "at cost". | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 10:47 | history | answered | Maulik V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |