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costing noun [ ˈkɒstɪŋ ]

• the proposed or estimated cost of producing or undertaking something.
• "he obtained costings for manual keyboarding of the records"

cost verb

• (of an object or action) require the payment of (a specified sum of money) before it can be acquired or done.
• "each issue of the magazine costs £1"
Similar: be priced at, sell for, be valued at, fetch, come to, amount to, be, set someone back, go for, knock someone back,
• estimate the price of.
• "it is their job to plan and cost a media schedule for the campaign"
Similar: value, price, put a price on, put a value on, put a figure on, estimate the cost of, estimate the price of, evaluate,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French coust (noun), couster (verb), based on Latin constare ‘stand firm, stand at a price’.


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