| Main Entry: | forfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something given as sacrifice |
Synonyms: |
cost, damages, fine, loss, mulct, penalty, relinquishment |
Antonyms: |
gain, victory, win |
| Main Entry: | forfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give up something in sacrifice |
Synonyms: |
abandon, be deprived of, be stripped of, drop, give over, lose, relinquish, renounce, sacrifice, surrender |
Antonyms: |
gain, profit, win |
| Main Entry: | cost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty, sacrifice |
Synonyms: |
damage, deprivation, detriment, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, loss, suffering |
Antonyms: |
repayment, retribution |
| Main Entry: | damage(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cost for problem |
Synonyms: |
amends, bill, charge, compensation, expense, fine, forfeit, indemnity, reimbursement, reparation, satisfaction, total |
Antonyms: |
award, compensation, profit, recompense, reward |
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon; ignore |
Synonyms: |
abort, adios, be alienated from, break with, call off, cancel, cast off, cease, desert, discontinue, dismiss, disown, ditch*, divorce, dust off, eighty-six, end, forfeit, forget about, forsake, give up, have done with, interrupt, jilt, kick*, leave, lose, part from, part with, quit, reject, relinquish, remit, renounce, repudiate, resign, sacrifice, scratch*, scrub, separate, shake, stop, terminate, throw over, wash out, waste one, wipe out, write off |
Antonyms: |
continue, do, mount, pursue, take up |
| Main Entry: | expense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cost, payment |
Synonyms: |
amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line, budget, charge, consumption, debit, debt, decrement, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, obligation, out of pocket, outdo, outlay, output, overhead, payroll, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, spending, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth |
| Notes: | expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures |
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty in money |
Synonyms: |
amends, amercement, assessment, damages, forfeit, mulct, punishment, reparation, rip |
Antonyms: |
amends, award, compensation, reimbursement, reward |
| Main Entry: | lose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be deprived of; mislay |
Synonyms: |
be careless, be impoverished, be reduced, become poorer, bereave, capitulate, consume, default, deplete, disinherit, displace, dispossess, dissipate, divest, drain, drop, exhaust, expend, fail, fail to keep, fall short, forfeit, forget, give up, lavish, misplace, miss, misspend, oust, pass up, relinquish, rob, sacrifice, squander, suffer, suffer loss, surrender, use up, waste, yield |
Antonyms: |
hold on to, keep, maintain |
| Main Entry: | lost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | missing, off-track |
Synonyms: |
absent, adrift, astray, at sea, cast away, disappeared, disoriented, down the drain, fallen between cracks, forfeit, forfeited, gone, gone astray, hidden, invisible, irrecoverable, irretrievable, irrevocable, kiss goodbye, lacking, minus, mislaid, misplaced, missed, nowhere to be found, obscured, off-course, out the window, strayed, unredeemed, vanished, wandering, wayward, without |
Antonyms: |
accomplishing, found, successful, winning |
| Main Entry: | pawn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | security for a loan |
Synonyms: |
assurance, bond, collateral, earnest, forfeit, gage, gambit, guarantee, guaranty, pledge, security, token, warrant |