Meaning

3 senses
  1. A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.

    Schätzung, Abschätzung

    оце́нкаocénka

    оці́нкаocínka, кошто́рисkoštórys

  2. A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.

    (specifically)A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job is likely to cost.

    Voranschlag

    сме́таsméta, расчётrasčót

    кошто́рисkoštórys

    a statement indicating the likely cost of some job

  3. An upper limitation on some positive quantity.

Examples

184 sentences
  1. Can you estimate its value?

    Ти можеш визначити його ціну?

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. No cost estimate was available.

    Не було кошторису витрат.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CM · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. There is no damage estimate yet.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. This estimate should be pretty accurate.

    ruЭта оценка должна быть довольно точна.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. It's hard to estimate the distance.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
rough calculation or guess:
Русский
By meaning 2
rough calculation or guess:
(construction and business) a document specifying how much a job will probably cost:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
rough calculation or guess:
(construction and business) a document specifying how much a job will probably cost:

Origin

From Middle English estimat, borrowed from Latin aestimātus (“valuing, estimate”, only use

From Middle English estimat, borrowed from Latin aestimātus (“valuing, estimate”, only used in the ablative singular: "aestimātū..." (in valuing...)), from aestimō + -tus (“action noun-forming suffix”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: estimates
Singularestimate
Pluralestimates

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
estimate — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto