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? — Ahha

  2. No cost estimate was available.

    Не було кошторису витрат. — Ahha

  3. There is no damage estimate yet.

  4. This estimate should be pretty accurate.

    ruЭта оценка должна быть довольно точна. — scriptin

  5. It's hard to estimate the distance.

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”).

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Forms

plural: estimates
Singularestimate
Pluralestimates

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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