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costing
成本計算,生產費
costing
成本法
costing
成本法
Cost v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cost; p. pr. & vb. n. Costing.]
1. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. --Shak.
Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. --Shak.
2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. --Milton.
To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.