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noun

estimation

CEFR C1

a judgment or opinion about the value, amount, or quality of something

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Six example sentences with estimation, each labelled with its topic.

  • By the analyst's estimation the retailer was worth half its share price, and she said so in a report that moved the market.

    Finance

  • The engineer's estimation of the load put the old timber floor at half the strength the new gallery would need.

    Architecture

  • The curator's estimation of the sketch's age, based on the paper's watermark, placed it a full century earlier than the label claimed.

    Art

  • In the scout's estimation the guard was a starter within two years, though his college shooting numbers said otherwise.

    Basketball

  • By the investor's estimation the company had six months of cash, not the year the founders kept promising.

    Startups

  • By the ministry's estimation the drought cut grain output by a fifth, and the price data soon agreed.

    Economics

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