best guess
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbestandguess
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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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guess
noun[C]
uk/ɡes/us/ɡes/
an attempt to give the right answer when you are not certain if you ...
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(Definition ofbestandguessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The byelaws are meant to reflect thebestguessof the people who have dealt with docklands planning since the corporation came into existence.
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This is thebestguesswe can make at the present time.
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Ourbestguessis that the fund would work only if it won approximately nine cases for every one that it lost.
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Ourbestguessis that there will be approximately 50 people coming here during the course of a year.
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Where it would be difficult to judge which of the two lines was the shortest, subjects were instructed to make theirbestguess.
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They were told to make theirbestguessif uncertain.
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The listeners were told to make theirbestguessif uncertain, and to use the entire scale.
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The answer to that is anyone'sbestguess.
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The listeners were told to make theirbestguessif uncertain and were urged to use the entire scale.
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Thebestguesswas that any change in these critical early developmental genes must be lethal.
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There would be no likely "initialbestguess," or pre-fabricated conceptual category.
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In the absence of any such data a "bestguess" estimate of benefit was made.
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It is important that you make thebestguessthat you can.
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This a priori prediction is then combined with the actual observations in order to determine a "bestguess" region within which the ship is located: the a posteriori estimate.
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This is what contracting is; it is making thebestguesspossible about the future price of the ingredients of the tender.
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Mybestguessis that the majority of those are schemes with publicly quoted companies.
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