cost vs quotation

cost

noun
  • Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. 

  • Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic. 

  • A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. 

  • A cottise. 

verb
  • To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. 

  • To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. 

  • To calculate or estimate a price. 

  • To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. 

quotation

noun
  • The act of setting a price. 

  • A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech. 

  • A price that has been quoted for buying or selling. 

How often have the words cost and quotation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )