different between costed vs costen

English

Verb

costed

1. simple past tense and past participle of cost

   We costed the project at $1,000,000. (simple past tense)

   We've costed the project at £1,000,000. (past participle)

Usage notes

• The only non-proscribed use is in the sense of "to give a cost to". Where Standard English 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. Having a specified (type of) cost

   This was a badly costed project.

Further reading

• costed at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• scoted

English

Etymology

From Middle English costnien, from Old English costnian, subsidiary form of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kust?n? (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). More at choose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.s?n/

Verb

costen (third-person singular simple present costens, present participle costening, simple past and past participle costened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To try; tempt.

Related terms

• cost
• costning

Anagrams

• Contés, Tecson, c notes, c-notes, centos, socnet

Catalan

Verb

costen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of costar