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Definition
rough calculation or judgment
- The crowd was there, thought Peter Keating, to see him graduate, and he tried to estimate the capacity of the hall.1.2 — Part 1 Chapter 2 (18% in)
- Well, I've always said that you underestimated me.2.7 — Part 2 Chapter 7 (37% in)
- But he felt a tremendous respect for Ellsworth Toohey, because Toohey represented the exact opposite of his own life; Toohey had no concern whatever for worldly wealth; by the mere fact of this contrast, he considered Toohey the personification of virtue; what this estimate implied in regard to his own life never quite occurred to him.2.10 — Part 2 Chapter 10 (64% in)
- "I overestimated you, Ellsworth," she said.2.15 — Part 2 Chapter 15 (51% in)
- The estimates set by collectors and the matter of great signatures were of no concern to him.3.1 — Part 3 Chapter 1 (83% in)
- At the present estimate, my personal fortune amounts to forty million dollars.4.13 — Part 4 Chapter 13 (18% in)
- Officials of Cortlandt, building inspectors, estimators took the stand to describe the building and the extent of the damage.4.18 — Part 4 Chapter 18 (18% in)
There are no more uses of "estimate" in The Fountainhead.
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