optimistic estimate

collocation in English

meaningsofoptimisticandestimate

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optimistic
adjective
uk
/ˌɒp.tɪˈmɪs.tɪk/us
/ˌɑːp.təˈmɪs.tɪk/
hoping or believing that good things will happen in ...
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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 ofoptimisticandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This turned out to be anoptimisticestimate.
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However, this is anoptimisticestimateof the time involved in manually labelling examples, as we did not start from scratch but used the rst-dt to pre-select examples.
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No time limit is given for completion, and the mostoptimisticestimateis that it will take at least 15 to 20 years from commencement.
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Assuming satisfactory performance from the outset, a ratheroptimisticestimateof the period of gestation will then have been no better than 19 years.
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I should think that six months would be anoptimisticestimate.
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I am not sure that it is not a highlyoptimisticestimate.
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Anoptimisticestimateis that no more than 9,000 of them have been offered full-time residential places in their own communities.
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It is a small sum and it is perhaps anoptimisticestimate.
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It is estimated—and it may well be anoptimisticestimate—that this tax will raise £11 million.
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According to the mostoptimisticestimate, the council will be able to allow 20 licences a year.
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Even the mostoptimisticestimateof the costs per ton-mile show that it will be for many years higher than for surface transport.
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Anyoptimisticestimateof costs at this stage, which there always are, should be ignored.
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On the mostoptimisticestimate, there is a market for 9,000,000 tons, taking the peak figure in the last 10 years.
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On anoptimisticestimate, it will be open in the spring of 1991.
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It looks as though even on the mostoptimisticestimateit will be ten years before the country is well covered with them.
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The mostoptimisticestimatecould not go above 3,000 men and it would take over 500 years of that scheme to cure the problem.
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It was an inadequate list and now the still rosy andoptimisticestimateis that £75 million will be saved by that means.
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On the mostoptimisticestimate, we cannot expect to have more than about 9,000,000 tons of shipping at our disposal at the conclusion of hostilities.
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But at anoptimisticestimate, twin site working will continue at this university for another 10 years.
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