guestimate
noun[C]
uk/ˈɡestɪmət/us→guesstimate
| 单词 | guestimate |
| 释义 | guestimate noun[C] uk/ˈɡestɪmət/us→guesstimate Examplesofguestimateguestimate These are of course ' guestimates ' based on sparse information. From theCambridge English Corpus I think one could say that the figure was entirely a "guestimate". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be almost impossible to quantify because much training is undertaken by small firms, but it should be possible to provide aguestimate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that any of them are likely to be right because they are all pure "guestimates". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The "guestimate" may sometimes favour the seller and sometimes favour the buyer, and farmers ask that they should be paid for exactly what they sell. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Today, 17 years later, myguestimateis that on average the agricultural value of the land has decreased from £2,500 to £1,500. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I have indicated that it was clearly a "guestimate". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is "guestimated" that in the 2020s it will be 10 billion or even more unless action is taken. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There have been estimates and "guestimates" during the last two or three years from various quarters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They should have ensured that they got the full facts, and should not have come up later with a judgment based upon their "guestimates". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Often it is a matter of aguestimateto know how to attribute that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not in the business of guestimating or estimating. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Theguestimatefor my constituency is that about 19,000 carers are to be found there, of whom 1,300 have been identified, helped and funded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The percentage was purely aguestimateon my part. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Very often there is a basis ofguestimatein the figures produced by other countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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