cost vs payment

payment vs cost

cost and payment both are nouns.

cost is a verb but payment is not a verb.

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

As nouns, payment is a hyponym of cost; that is, payment 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
payment: a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

Other hyponyms of cost include disbursal, disbursement, expense, capital expenditure, 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, damage, price, terms, price, opportunity cost, portage, charge, transaction cost, cost of quality, quality cost, direct cost.

cost (noun)	payment (noun)
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)	the act of paying money
value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something	an act of requiting; returning in kind
the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor	a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

cost (verb)	payment (verb)
be priced at
require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice

Difference between cost and payment

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