minimum estimate

collocation in English

meaningsofminimumandestimate

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minimum
adjective
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/ˈmɪn.ɪ.məm/us
/ˈmɪn.ə.məm/
used to describe something that is the smallest or least allowed ...
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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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(Definition ofminimumandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This method assumes that each fusion has originated once and provides aminimumestimateof the number of fusions per chromosome.
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The total exposed thickness is thus 700 m, but this is aminimumestimateand does not take account of the section unexposed between the three areas of exposure.
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Aminimumestimateof cost can be made and that cost can turn out to be unprofitably high.
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This figure is aminimumestimateand could be significantly higher, particularly if further discoveries are made.
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There must be between £3,000 million and £3,500 million worth of work being done, at aminimumestimate.
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In our judgment, it was, therefore, right to operate on aminimumestimate.
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For that line the revenue would not exceed, or would not be expected to exceed, some £50,000; and this is theminimumestimatefor movement costs.
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Theminimumestimateof £2.5 billion would pay for 100 district hospitals a year, or for 5,000 teachers, nurses, policemen and firemen, who are sorely needed.
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This is aminimumestimatebased on hospitals closing and elderly parents dying.
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I am told that that is aminimumestimate.
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At aminimumestimatethe new coalfield should contain 400 million tons of good quality workable coal.
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It will cost at least £120 million, as aminimumestimate.
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It should be strongly emphasised that the 658 cases requiring institutional care is very much aminimumestimate.
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The figure quoted was close to theminimumestimateprovided.
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The shortfall on theminimumestimateof 80 million barrels a day required is thus 35 million barrels a day in this decade.
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Aminimumestimateof the economic cost to the nation of road accidents is £320 million a year, and it is increasing each year.
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I stress that this involvement is aminimumestimatewhich in reality could be considerably higher.
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If we take these figures together, theminimumestimateof the net loss to our current balance of payments must be at least £500 million a year.
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This transaction over the whole series of purchases has led to a saving of hundreds of thousands of pounds—at aminimumestimate£175,000—and possibly reaching to many times that sum.
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