Cost vs. Costed — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cost and Costed
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Definitions
Cost
In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost.
Costed
An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.
Cost
An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.
Costed
The expenditure of something, such as time or labor, necessary for the attainment of a goal
"Freedom to advocate unpopular causes does not require that such advocacy be without cost" (Milton Friedman).
Cost
The expenditure of something, such as time or labor, necessary for the attainment of a goal
"Freedom to advocate unpopular causes does not require that such advocacy be without cost" (Milton Friedman).
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Costed
Costs(Law) Charges incurred in bringing litigation, including court fees and charges that may be payable by the losing party, but usually not including attorneys' fees.
Cost
Costs(Law) Charges incurred in bringing litigation, including court fees and charges that may be payable by the losing party, but usually not including attorneys' fees.
Costed
To require a specified payment, expenditure, effort, or loss
It costs more to live in the city.
Cost
To require a specified payment, expenditure, effort, or loss
It costs more to live in the city.
Costed
To have as a price.
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Cost
To have as a price.
Costed
To cause to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
Participating in the strike cost me my job.
Cost
To cause to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
Participating in the strike cost me my job.
Costed
Past tense and past participle costed To estimate or determine the cost of
The accountants costed out our expenses.
Cost
Past tense and past participle costed To estimate or determine the cost of
The accountants costed out our expenses.
Costed
Simple past tense and past participle of cost
Cost
To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
Costed
Having a specified (type of) cost
This was a badly costed project.
Cost
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.
Cost
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
Cost
To calculate or estimate a price.
I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
Cost
Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.
Cost
A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.
The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.
Cost
(obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.en
Cost
Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Cost
(obsolete) A rib; a side.
Cost
(heraldry) A cottise.
Cost
A rib; a side; a region or coast.
Betwixt the costs of a ship.
Cost
See Cottise.
Cost
The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you,Here at my house, and at my proper cost.
At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion.
Cost
Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
I know thy trains,Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils.
Cost
Expenses incurred in litigation.
Cost
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.
Though it cost me ten nights' watchings.
Cost
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
Cost
The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
Cost
The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold);
The fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver
He puts a high price on his services
He couldn't calculate the cost of the collection
Cost
Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something;
The cost in human life was enormous
The price of success is hard work
What price glory?
Cost
Be priced at;
These shoes cost $100
Cost
Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice;
This mistake cost him his job
