cost vs loss

cost

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

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

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

  • 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. 

loss

noun
  • The destruction or ruin of an object. 

  • The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement. 

  • The death of a person or animal. 

  • Defeat; an instance of being defeated. 

  • Something that has been destroyed or ruined. 

  • The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died. 

  • The sum an entity loses on balance. 

  • Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work. 

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