Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun costing

1 sense of costing

Sense 1
costing -- (cost accounting)
       => cost accounting -- (keeping account of the costs of items in production)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cost

2 senses of cost

Sense 1
cost, be -- (be priced at; "These shoes cost $100")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")

Sense 2
cost -- (require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job")
       => necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand -- (require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent")