costing

verbcommand a price of
verbharm; exact a penalty

Synonyms for costing

verb command a price of

Antonyms for costing

priced

adjective. valued

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 for costing

We're costing these ladies pounds and pounds already to get work for us, and they never will.

I made a mistake then that went mighty near to costing me my life.

Some of them are expensive, costing sixty or seventy dollars each.

I am quite grieved at the weariness and fatigue my affairs are costing you.

On his return he broke his wagon, costing a dollar to repair it.

I know how much I care for you, and how much this effort is costing me.

Still, we rode Munipoor "tats" costing us from 50 rupees to 100.

I told him it was my money, and he was costing me more than I could ever cost him.

When I was well, he reproached me for costing him so much money.

An effort it was costing him, however, and one far from successful.

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