estimate
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6.5
- noun
- /ˈɛstɪmeɪt/
- By my estimate, the project will be completed by next month.
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Watch on YouTubeWhere do you fall your own estimate, your own guess on this question?
- Where do you fall your own estimate, your own guess on this question?
Examples
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By his own estimate, it would bring 1.2 million at auction, and that was years ago.
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Give me your best estimate of its nature and origin.
Fiction book (1998) -
And we got an estimate and they came in and this was the number.
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Where do you fall your own estimate, your own guess on this question?
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I wish to make an estimate of my own.
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Well, my estimate unfortunately, is high relative to what Wall Street thinks.
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My conservative estimate is that this was a strike force of at least 10 men.
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The teachers were asked to indicate their estimate of the impact of moonlighting on their performance as teachers.
Academic text (1992) -
Casi added a good ten years to her estimate of the woman's age.
Fiction book (2002) -
Maybe three months wasn't a fair estimate for Cripple Billy.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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5.1
An estimate of how much something is worth
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3.2
An opinion about someone's qualities or how much people respect them
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4.3
A judgment of how well someone does their job or how much something is worth
A careful guess about size, amount, or cost of something
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.7
A price plan for a job based on the actual time spent and materials used
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Estimate comes from the Latin aestimare, 'to value', and is the same root as the word esteem, which means to hold someone in value. So an estimate in this sense is a personal judgment or opinion about someone's qualities or worth.