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costed

costed is the simple past and past participle of cost.

Meaning of cost

Verb

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

  1. (ditransitive, transitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
    • This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
  2. (ditransitive, transitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
    • Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
  3. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
    • to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  4. To calculate or estimate a price.
    • I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
  5. (colloquial, transitive) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
    • I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.

See all 12 meanings of cost

Adjective

costed (not comparable)

  1. Having a specified (type of) cost
    • This was a badly costed project.

Words formed from costed

Phrases with costed

Questions about costed

What does costed mean?
Costed means having a specified (type of) cost.
What is costed the simple past and past participle of?
Costed is the simple past and past participle of cost.
What part of speech is costed?
Costed is an adjective.

Words near costed in the dictionary

  1. costeaning
  2. costeanings
  3. costeans
  4. costectomies
  5. costectomy
  6. costed
  7. costed up
  8. costee
  9. costees
  10. Costeff syndrome
  11. costellariid

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