costing

cost  (kôst)

n.

1. An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.

2. The expenditure of something, such as time or labor, necessary for the attainment of a goal: "Freedom to advocate unpopular causes does not require that such advocacy be without cost" Milton Friedman.

3. costs Law The charges fixed for litigation, often payable by the losing party.

v. cost, cost·ing, costs

v.intr.

To require a specified payment, expenditure, effort, or loss: It costs more to live in the city.

v.tr.

1. To have as a price.

2. To cause to lose, suffer, or sacrifice: Participating in the strike cost me my job.

3. past tense and past participle costed To estimate or determine the cost of: The accountants costed out our expenses.

Idiom:

at all costs

Regardless of the expense or effort involved; by any means.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from coster, to cost, from Latin cnstre, to be fixed, cost; see constant.]

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costless adj.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

costing - cost accounting cost accounting - keeping account of the costs of items in production Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

Translations

costing [ˈkɔstɪŋ] n → cálculo del coste

costing [ˈkɔstɪŋ] n → calcul m du prix de revient

costing [ˈkɔstɪŋ] cost n → Kalkulation f

costing [ˈkɔstɪŋ] n → (determinazione f dei) costi mpl