costed

verbcommand a price of
verbharm; exact a penalty

Synonyms for costed

verb command a price of

Antonyms for costed

Word Origin & History

c.1200, from Old French cost (12c., Modern French coût) "cost, outlay, expenditure; hardship, trouble," from Vulgar Latin *costare, from Latin constare, literally "to stand at" (or with), with a wide range of figurative senses including "to cost." The idiom is the same one used in Modern English when someone says something "stands at X dollars" to mean it sells for X dollars. The Latin word is from com- "with" (see com-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).

Example Sentences forcosted

She's costed me a deal already, but she ain't got all the money.

The things that friend Brown Shiped to me by the Express costed $24-1/4.

She already found where Louis Sen makes mistakes, which Gott weiss wie vile it costed us yet.

Walkin' 'long—quite shober—sud'ly 'costed by man dressed like 'pleeceman.