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English word

estimate

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UK /ˈestɪmət/US /ˈestɪmət/
noun

a judgement that you make without having the exact details or figures about the size, amount, cost, etc. of something

verb

to form an idea of the cost, size, value etc. of something, but without calculating it exactly

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Sentence 47 · Pro
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University
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At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

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The estimated cost per flight of orbital space plane is somewhere in the region of $300 to $400 million a flight.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureSentence 122 · Pro

As of November 2018, the company has attracted more than $3.6 billion from investors, including Softbank, Sequoia Capital and BlackRock, giving the company an estimated valuation of $9 billion.

Coupang: How a Harvard Dropout Built Korea's Most Valuable StartupSentence 68 · Pro

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