Estimate

Quick meaning: Estimate is a noun meaning A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.

Meaning

A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.

More Meanings

1. An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
2. To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
3. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
4. (obsolete, rare) estimated

Example Sentences

It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.

It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.

Higher real prices for durables are estimated to have reduced their consumption per capita by 1.09% in 1930, […]

The desired norm estimate is now obtained from the identity... [referring to an earlier statement saying that a certain norm is less than or equal to a certain expression]

Word Forms

• estimates
• estimating
• estimated

Synonyms for estimate

Depending on context, synonyms include appraise, assess, approximate, give, put, estimation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include estimation, reckon, appraisal, approximation, guess, approximate.

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