costing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: costing	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
costing n cost accounting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cost \Cost\ (k[ocr]st; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cost}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Costing}.] [OF. coster, couster, F. co[ucir]ter, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Constant}.] 1. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. --Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. --Shak. 2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. --Milton. {To cost dear}, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.