Definitions for costing

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costing cost·ing

Spelling: [kaws-ting, kos-]

IPA: /ˈkɔs tɪŋ, ˈkɒs-/

Costing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in costing (cginost).

Definitions for costing

noun

1. cost accounting.
2. the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
3. an outlay or expenditure of money, time, labor, trouble, etc.:
4. a sacrifice, loss, or penalty:
5. costs, Law. money allowed to a successful party in a lawsuit in compensation for legal expenses incurred, chargeable to the unsuccessful party. money due to a court or one of its officers for services in a cause.

Idioms

1. at all costs, regardless of the effort involved; by any means necessary: Also, at any cost.

Verb phrases

1. cost out, to calculate the cost of (a project, product, etc.) in advance:

verb (used with object)

1. to require the payment of (money or something else of value) in an exchange:
2. to result in or entail the loss of:
3. to cause to lose or suffer:
4. to entail (effort or inconvenience):
5. to cause to pay or sacrifice:
6. to estimate or determine the cost of (manufactured articles, new processes, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to estimate or determine costs, as of manufacturing something.

Origin of costing

1200-50; (v.) Middle English costen Anglo-French, Old French co(u)ster Latin constāre to stand together, be settled, cost; cf. constant; (noun) Middle English Ang

Examples for costing

I made a mistake then that went mighty near to costing me my life.

We're costing these ladies pounds and pounds already to get work for us, and they never will.

Almost 80 years ago, the controversy it raised came close to costing its composer his life.

Some of them are expensive, costing sixty or seventy dollars each.

I am quite grieved at the weariness and fatigue my affairs are costing you.

“Peter Gelb is responsible for costing the mayor money that he could have used for pre-K program,” Wisenfeld said.

Synchronoss only got paid when a customer activated on AT&T, so each of those jailbreakers was costing Synchronoss money.

And the support of prisons and prisoners is costing taxpayers as much as $74 billion a year.

Our lawyer, Kia Kamran, declined his commission because he knew how much the tour was costing us.

On his return he broke his wagon, costing a dollar to repair it.