Meaning & use
costed
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Calculated or estimated the cost of a project, plan, or piece of work, the past tense of "cost" used in this business sense.
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The engineering team costed the renovation before submitting the proposal to management.
Once the new packaging was costed, the company realized it would raise prices slightly.
A note on using this word
This transitive use of "cost" (meaning "to estimate the cost of") is standard in British business English; American English more often uses "estimated the cost of" instead.
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