See Also: estimate 2, verb(dictionary)
estimate(2)(dictionary)
estimate(1)(dictionary)
estimate(medicine)
Preliminary estimate(finance)
estimate 1, noun(dictionary)
Preliminary estimate(money)
Revised estimate(money)
Revised estimate(finance)
Detailed Cost Estimate(money)

estimate 2, verb (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: , past participle of aestimare 'to think important']
to try to judge the value, size, speed, cost etc of something, without calculating it exactly
be estimated to be/have/cost etc
::The tree is estimated to be at least 700 years old.
estimate sth at sth
::Organizers estimated the crowd at 50,000.
estimate that
::Scientists estimate that smoking reduces life expectancy by around 12 years on average.
estimate how many/what etc
::It is not easy to estimate how many people have the disease.
-- estimated adj
::heroin with an estimated street value of ¡ê50,000
-- estimator n [C]