cost up
cost up
To determine the total cost of something by calculating all the smaller costs involved. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cost" and "up." When we cost up all the steps of our home renovation project, we knew that it was going to exceed the amount we had budgeted. The boss wants you to cost up the project before he'll sign off on it.
See also: cost, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- cost out
- eat
- eat (someone or something)
- eat it
- eat me
- estimate the cost at
- estimate the cost at (something)
- change to
- cost
- and hang the cost