Usually means: Expensive in terms of consequences.
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  1. cost dear: Merriam-Webster
  2. cost dear: TheFreeDictionary.com
  3. cost dear: Wiktionary

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  1. cost dear: Legal dictionary
  2. cost dear: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cost dear: Medical dictionary

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  1. cost dear: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (cost dear)

verb:  To be expensive. [with to ‘someone’]
verb:  (by extension) To cause a lot of pain or suffering.

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