Apart from a mild comment about the quaintness of thrice, and I am in no position to quibble about quaint, I think your

sentence is fine. Costed is not the same as cost. If I costed the company, I evaluated it in some way to put a price on it. If I cost (past tense of some kind) the company, I caused it spend money or other resource. The fact that cost and caused sound somewhat similar is a cosmic coincidence for which I apologise. 1. Welcome to the forums, Leo, For the verb: "to cost" Simple Past: cost Past Participle: cost There is confusion among the various meanings of the verb. You used "cost" properly. The sense of the verb in your sentence is ~to have caused something or somebody to bear an expense. The other meaning deals with, as you have written, calculating or estimating expenses. That's common in fields such as finance, accounting, and manufacturing. It has nothing to do with your sentence. This project has cost us far more than we expected, due to bad weather, poor design specifications, and sloppy work.

The accounting department has costed the project, on the basis of work done to date, and projects a massive budget overrrun. Those two sentences illustrate two distinct meanings of the verb. Here is how Cambridge Advanced Learners Dict. sees it. cost verb [T] cost, cost If something costs an amount of money, you must pay that amount to buy or do it: "How much does this book cost (= What is the price of this book)?" "It costs 25." It costs a lot to buy a house in this part of London. [+ two objects] The trip will cost you $1000. cost verb [T] costed, costed to calculate the future cost of something: How carefully did you cost the materials for the new fence and gate? Has your scheme been properly costed (out)?

Etymology 1
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition), from Old Norse kostr (choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (choice, trial) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (choice, trial)), from Proto-Indo-European *wstus (to enjoy, taste).

Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (taste, flavour), Dutch kust (choice, choosing), North Frisian kest (choice, estimation, virtue), Old English cyst (free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence). Related to choose. Noun cost (plural costs) 1. Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance. at all costs (= "by all means") 2. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Derived terms

at all costs needs-cost

Related terms

costen costning

Etymology 2
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (to cost), see below. Noun

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cost (plural costs) 1. 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 bankrupcy. The average cost of a new house is twice as much as t was 20 years ago. 2. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. There were many costs to the development project, the least of all was the financial aspect. If you train all the time, there will be a few costs such as a lack of free time.

Derived terms [show ]Terms

derived from the noun appraisal cost at cost carbon cost cost and freight cost avoidance cost-benefit cost benefit analysis cost center cost control cost cutting cost-effective cost-efficient cost function costless costly cost objective cost of business = cost of sales cost of doing business = cost of sales cost of living

cost of sales cost overrun cost per avalable seat mile cost price cost-push design to cost flotation cost landed cost low-cost marginal cost opportunity cost private cost sunk cost unexpired cost unit cost variable cost

Translations [show ]amount

of money, time, etc. Asturian: costu (ast) m. Basque: kostu (eu) Bulgarian: (bg) f. Catalan: preu (ca) m., cost (ca) m. Chamicuro: iso'no Chinese: trad. , simpl. (pinyin: fiyng), (cmn) (chngbn), trad. , simpl. (pinyin: hufi) Czech: nklad (cs) m., cena (cs) f. Dutch: kost (nl) Finnish: hinta (fi), kustannus (fi) French: cot (fr) m., frais (fr) m. Galician: custo (gl) m. Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Kosten (de) pl. Greek: (el) (kstos) n., (el) (dapni) f., (el) (tmima) n., (el) (anttimo) n. Hebrew: ( he) ('alut) f.

Italian: costo (it) m., spesa (it) f. Japanese: (ja) (, hiy) Kurdish: Sorani: ( ku), ( ku)

Latvian: maksa (lv) f., cena (lv) f., drdzba (lv) f. Novial: kosto Polish: koszt (pl) m. Portuguese: custo (pt) m. Romanian: cost (ro), pre (ro) Russian: (ru) (stimost') f., (ru) (sebestimost') f., (ru) (tsen) f., (ru) (zatrty) f. pl., (ru) (rasxdy) m. pl. Scottish Gaelic: cosgais (gd) f., prs (gd) f., cosg (gd) m. Spanish: costo (es) m. Swahili: gharama (sw) Swedish: kostnad (sv) c. Turkish: please add this translation if

Hungarian: r (hu) loss

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Asturian: costu (ast) m. Basque: kostu (eu) Bulgarian: (bg) pl. Chinese: Mandarin: (cmn) (cmn) (dija)

Czech: cena (cs) f. Finnish: hinta (fi) French: cot (fr) m. Galician: custo (gl) m. German: Verlust (de) m., Ausgaben (de) f. Greek: (el) (kstos) n.

Japanese: (ja) (, daish) Latvian: maksa (lv) f. Novial: kosto Polish: cena (pl) f. Russian: (ru) (izdrki) f. pl., (ru) (zatrty) f. pl., (ru) (tsen) f. Scottish Gaelic: cosgais (gd) f., prs (gd) f., cosg (gd) m. Spanish: costo (es) m. Swahili: gharama (sw) Swedish: kostnad (sv) c.

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations. [show ]Translations to be checked Indonesian: biaya, ongkos Portuguese: custo

Etymology 3
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (to cost), from Medieval Latin costare, from Latin constare (stand together, stand at, cost), from com- + stare (stand). Verb cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed) See Usage notes. 1. To incur a charge, a price. This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30. It will cost you a lot of money to take a round-the-world trip. Entry to the museums used to be free, but now it costs 5 pounds. 2. To cause something to be lost. Trying to rescue the man from the frozen lake cost me my health. 3. To calculate or estimate a value.

Usage notes

The past tense and past participle is cost in the sense of "this computer cost me 600", but costed in the sense of "the project was costed at $1 million."
Derived terms

cost an arm and a leg cost a pretty penny cost the earth how much does it cost

Translations [show ]to

incur a charge, a price

Arabic: ( ar) (saawaa) Asturian: costar (ast) Basque: kostatu (eu) Bulgarian: (bg) Catalan: costar (ca) Chinese: trad. , simpl. (pinyin: hufi) Czech: stt (cs) Dutch: kosten (nl) Esperanto: kosti (eo) Finnish: maksaa (fi) French: coter (fr) Galician: custar (gl) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: kosten (de) Greek: ko stizo (means also "to cause damage or distress"), sti izo (means also to inflict" and "to align"), ti mome , kano colloquial (has a huge number of meanings, one of them is "to cost")] Indonesian: menghabiskan biaya

Interlingua: costar (ia) Italian: costare (it) Japanese: (ja) (, tsuiyasu), (ja) (kakaru) Kannada:
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Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: consto (la), valeo (la) Latvian: makst (lv) Luxembourgish: kaschten (lb) Polish: kosztowa (pl) Portuguese: custar (pt) Romanian: costa (ro), preui (ro) Russian: (ru) (stit') Scottish Gaelic: cosg (gd) Spanish: costar (es) Swahili: gharimu (sw) Swedish: kosta (sv) c. Turkish: please add this translation if you can Zulu: -biza (zu)

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: week stone tree #781: cost value cast speaking

Anagrams

cots, COTS

scot, Scot

Anglo-Norman
Noun
cost m. (oblique plural costs, nominative singular costs, nominative plural cost) 1. cost; financial outlay Related terms

coster

Catalan
Noun

cost m. (plural costs) 1. cost Related terms

costar

Manx
Noun
cost m. (genitive cost, plural costyn) 1. charge (monetary) Derived terms

costal

Old English

Etymology
Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *ews- (to choose). Akin to Old Saxon kostn (to try, tempt), Old High German kostn (to taste, test, try by tasting) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (to try, tempt), Gothic (kustus, test), Old English cystan (to spend, get the value of, procure), Old English cyst (proof, test, trial; choice), osan (to choose). More at choose.

Noun
cost m. 1. option, choice; possibility 2. condition, manner, way s costes e (on the condition that)

Adjective
cost 1. chosen, choice 2. tried, proven; excellent

Welsh
Noun
cost m. and f. (plural costau) 1. cost 2. expense Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=cost&oldid=18596921" Categories:

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English
Verb
costed
1. Simple past tense of cost.

We costed the project at $1,000,000. 2. Past participle of cost. We've costed the project at 1,000,000.

Usage notes

The only non-proscribed use is in the sense of "to give a cost to". Where proper grammar is expected, use cost instead for non-specialized past-tense and past-participle uses such as answering the question "How much did it cost?" Occasionally replaced with noun or verb forms of price, where commonly accepted, as in, "The event's hosting was priced at $1,000,000."

Adjective
costed (not comparable)
1. The object of a costing. This was a badly costed project.