costing
costing is the present participle and gerund of cost.
Meaning of cost
Verb
cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)
- To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
- 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.
- 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...
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
- To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
- I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.
Noun
costing (plural costings)
- The estimation of the cost of a process or product.
Forms of costing
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Words formed from costing
Phrases with costing
Questions about costing
- What does costing mean?
- Costing means the estimation of the cost of a process or product.
- What is costing the present participle and gerund of?
- Costing is the present participle and gerund of cost.
- What part of speech is costing?
- Costing is a noun.
- What is the plural of costing?
- The plural of costing is costings.
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