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What do you estimate this will cost?estimate = roughly calculate or guess
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I want a written estimate before I approve the repair.estimate = calculation of projected cost
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Can you estimate the cost?estimate = roughly calculate or guess
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Check the reasonableness of your math solution by estimating the answer before solving the problem.estimating = making a rough calculation
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I asked her to give me a firm price, but she would only give me an estimate.estimate = rough calculation or guess
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I hope her estimate of less than $100 to repair my car is good because I only have $100.estimate = rough calculation or informed guess
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Time estimate? (source)estimate = rough calculation or guess
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The boy estimated that, if he worked for six more months, he could return to Spain and buy sixty sheep, and yet another sixty. (source)estimated = roughly calculated or guessed
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Whenever he performed a minor service for Jem and me, as removing a splinter from a foot, he would tell us exactly what he was going to do, give us an estimation of how much it would hurt, and explain the use of any tongs he employed. (source)estimation = an educated guess (rough calculation)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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There were now 12,000 army troops in the region—four times as many as their estimates of the Taliban—along with tanks, helicopters and sophisticated weapons.† (source)estimates = rough calculations or guesses of values, quantities, or extents
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I'd foolishly underestimated Sorrento and the Sixers.† (source)underestimated = calculated or judged too low
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I used to enjoy estimating quantities, but not anymore.† (source)estimating = roughly calculating or guessing (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
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I overestimated my progress.† (source)overestimated = made a rough calculation or judgment that something would be greater or more extreme than it wasstandard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overestimated means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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Leffingwell Elementary was just a few blocks from our house and my father, grossly underestimating our ability to get lost, had assumed that my mother and I would be able to find our way home.† (source)underestimating = calculating or judging too low
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I figured they wanted to enslave us for our abilities, or at the very least sell us at auction—but then I'm always overestimating people.† (source)overestimating = calculating or judging too highstandard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overestimating means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.† (source)underestimates = calculates or judges too low
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