单词 | estimated |
释义 | estimatedadj. That has been estimated; assigned an approximate value, magnitude, etc.; (of a specified number of people or things) based on estimation, not precisely measured or evaluated. ΚΠ 1622 J. Wing Best Merchandise 9 Money for ware, to the just and estimated value..and worth of the things bought. 1774 N. Smith Observ. East India Shipping 48 The estimated amount of the repairing voyage... £ 8,560. 1789 G. Craufurd Enq. Situation of East India Company 19 The Company's debts..will be further increased..for making good the defalcations in the estimated revenue. 1818 W. Mitford Hist. Greece V. xlvi. 147 In France formerly a simple command of the king sufficed for taking any man's land, at its estimated worth. 1893 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. (rev. ed.) 240 Unless the goods are bonded, the duty must be paid up on an estimated amount. 1940 M. Jameson Quicksands of Youthwardness in Astonishing Stories Oct. 18/1 Coming in on a tangent about a hundred miles above the estimated surface. 1976 NBR Marketplace (Wellington, N.Z.) iii. 2/1 Over 50 per cent of the estimated 900,000 regular shavers..prefer a wet shave. 2011 Independent 20 Aug. 39/1 Sinkholes where soluble rock has been weakened by..an estimated 18 feet of rainfall each year. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1622 |
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