cost vs damage

cost and damage both are nouns.

cost and damage both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cost	Yes	No	Yes	No
damage	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, damage is a hyponym of cost; that is, damage is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cost:

cost: the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
damage: the amount of money needed to purchase something

Other hyponyms of cost include disbursal, disbursement, expense, capital expenditure, payment, ransom, ransom money, cost overrun, cost of living, borrowing cost, distribution cost, handling charge, handling cost, marketing cost, production cost, replacement cost, physical value, reproduction cost, unit cost, price, terms, price, opportunity cost, portage, charge, transaction cost, cost of quality, quality cost, direct cost.

cost (noun)	damage (noun)
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)	the act of damaging something or someone
value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something	any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor	the occurrence of a change for the worse
	loss of military equipment
	the amount of money needed to purchase something

cost (verb)	damage (verb)
be priced at	inflict damage upon
require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice	suffer or be susceptible to damage

Difference between cost and damage

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