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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

costing
    n 1: cost accounting

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cost \Cost\ (k[o^]st; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cost; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Costing.] [OF. coster, couster, F. co[^u]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.
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            A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. --Shak.
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            Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. --Shak.
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   2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
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            To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
                                                  --Milton.
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   To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of
      money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

costing \costing\ n.
   cost accounting. [British]
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