guesstimate
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈɡɛs.tɪ.meɪt/
- Informal
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estimación
- According to the best scientific guesstimates that were available in 2004, we picked a region that should continue to have water security.
So pushing your predictions and pushing your possibly educated guesstimates on to your production.
- So pushing your predictions and pushing your possibly educated guesstimates on to your production.
- These are just, you know, guesstimates and everybody's body is in different situations.
- We are today taking other impressive academics recent choices to affiliate with them as our best guesstimate of their prestige.
Examples
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I want some hard guesstimates.
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Does anybody have old guesstimate data on these?
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Let's do a simple guesstimate.
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Right now, we just don't know enough to make even a good guesstimate.
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These are just, you know, guesstimates and everybody's body is in different situations.
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According to our best cosmological guesstimate, the age of the universe is 13.75 billion years.
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Make an educated guesstimate.
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Well, let's do guesstimates using a few hypothetical scenarios.
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Unfortunately, there are no reliable figures on the number of honorary doctorates awarded annually in the United States; apparently, the American Council on Education ceased counting in 1973, and no one has assumed responsibility since then, but a guesstimate of 10,000 per year is probably in the ballpark.
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My guesstimate of the party attendance is around fifty people.
Synonyms
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2.6
A rough calculation of a number, amount or size
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3.4
A rough calculation of how much or how many something is
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8.2
A rough calculation used when exact numbers are not available
A rough guess about a number or amount without exact information
How Certain
- Specialized
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2.8
632
1.6
370
2.6
- Informal
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6.8
288
4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word guesstimate comes from mixing guess ('a quick idea without all the facts') and estimate ('a careful number'). So a guesstimate is a rough number you give when you cannot be exact.