best estimate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbestandestimate
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best
adjective
uk/best/us/best/
of the highest quality, or being the most suitable, pleasing, or effective type of thing ...
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estimate
noun[C]
uk/ˈes.tɪ.mət/us/ˈes.tə.mət/
a guess of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something ...
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These potential risk scores represent thebestestimateof a pesticide's impact on the surrounding environment.
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Since the same information was sometimes available from multiple sources, the 'bestestimate' information was recorded.
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Mybestestimatenow is that the dictionary will cover about 8,000 main entries, not counting alternative spellings.
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Otherwise, the use of litter traps gives thebestestimateof annual litter production.
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What then is thebestestimatethat one can make for the value of another linear functional?
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The solution is a level of permitted current utility that is thebestestimateof what may be expected to hold for all time.
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Estimation assigns strengths to those factors and may, when thebestestimateof the strength is zero, indicate which potential factors are unrealized.
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The distributions represent thebestestimateof the shape of the absorbance data taken under experimental conditions.
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This gives the error in calculating the mosquito abundance for a given sampling routine relative to thebestestimateof the mean mosquito abundance.
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The mean angle is thebestestimateof the neurons' preferred direction.
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Thebestestimateprocedure involved the interviewer making a case presentation to a team that included a psychiatrist, two psychologists, and a psychiatric social worker.
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Thebestestimateis that the human brain contains about 100 billion 1,011 neurons.
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The investment-abatement curve based on current carbon-abating technologies is thebestestimatefor the future investment-abatement relationship, given the uncertainty.
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