Word.ws English Dictionary

cost out

cost out verb: to calculate the cost of a future enterprise (project, plan, etc.).

Verb

cost out (third-person singular simple present costs out, present participle costing out, simple past and past participle costed out)

  1. To calculate the cost of a future enterprise (project, plan, etc.)

Forms of cost out

third-person singular presentcosts out
present participlecosting out
past participlecosted out
pastcosted out

Questions about cost out

What does cost out mean?
Cost out means to calculate the cost of a future enterprise (project, plan, etc.).
What part of speech is cost out?
Cost out is a verb.
What is the past tense of cost out?
The past tense of cost out is costed out.

Words near cost out in the dictionary

  1. cost of doing business
  2. cost of goods sold
  3. cost of living
  4. cost of money
  5. cost oil
  6. cost out
  7. cost overrun
  8. cost overruns
  9. cost plus
  10. cost price
  11. cost prices

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cost out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cost out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cost_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.