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单词 calculated
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Definition of calculated in English:

calculated

adjective ˈkalkjʊleɪtɪdˈkælkjəˌleɪdəd
  • (of an action) done with full awareness of the likely consequences.

    victims of vicious and calculated assaults
    Example sentencesExamples
    • First, an adult might make a calculated decision ‘to bury the hatchet.’
    • The experience-its calculated mystery, its silliness-was fun, but the whole phenomenon begs the question: what for?
    • I find that she made a calculated decision post-separation to ‘run down the clock’ on the property and financial issues with her husband.
    • The evidence suggests the cover-up was conscious, calculated and ongoing.
    • Officials generally believe that war results from a calculated, purposive, conscious decision.
    • This trial judge, as I read her Honour's findings, found the conduct at least towards the end of the impulsive scale rather than closer to a calculated decision.
    • The judge called the attempted robbery planned and calculated and said he had a duty to protect the public and vulnerable premises.
    • Rudd has taken a calculated decision to go public.
    • Still, if the price is a psychological barrier, rather than a calculated decision, the investor probably shouldn't be buying anyway.
    • The peculiar humour of the book has endured a harmless populist transformation, but that does not play like a disadvantageous calculated decision but like inspired fun.
    • Jane accuses the firm of using a calculated strategy to fire her because she had been there 11 years and was paid a higher salary than new workers.
    • Sensing the shift in ruling circles, and the possibility of winning government, they made a calculated decision that their best interests lay in burying the whole issue.
    • The company made a calculated business decision that the number of people it needed to compensate would be less than the profits.
    • The idea seems to have caught on in the market for housing accessories where every decision is a calculated choice, often involving the whole family.
    • Providing you think things through before you buy, you can be sure that you will make a calculated decision.
    • That's what makes music great, it's an emotional, personal impulse, not a calculated decision.
    • No-one thought that the concentration camp was a natural disaster: everyone knew that it was the calculated consequence of an evil vision.
    • The new employees haven't understood that having a liberal returns policy is a calculated financial decision on our part.
    • I took down the details more out of frustration with my job, a wish to explore other avenues, than a calculated decision to study art.
    • ‘You took a pre-meditated, calculated and awful revenge,’ the judge told him.
    Synonyms
    deliberate, premeditated, planned, pre-planned, preconceived, intentional, intended, done on purpose, purposeful, purposive, thought out in advance
    aforethought
    considered, conscious, studied, strategic
    Law, dated prepense

Derivatives

  • calculatedly

  • adverb
    • The well-crafted and calculatedly installed photographs through which he expressed his populist theme determined that the show would be of, but necessarily not by, the people.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His enemies have been able to cast him as a man calculatedly placing himself on both sides of every issue.
      • He knew exactly how far he could go; any apparent indiscretion was a calculatedly baited hook.
      • The invitation -- calculatedly late, I felt -- intimated that all her regular customers would be there.
      • They tend to be sceptical of extreme statements that call state institutions calculatedly inhumane.
      • Were some people calculatedly closing down their business premises just so the government might be embarrassed?
      • Its characters are calculatedly charming and the script slyly ends each of its tragic notes with a sight gag.
      • Don't call it a controversy - even though that's what the coach has deliberately, calculatedly set in motion.
      • What we have here is an opposition calculatedly using the tactics of deceit, promising one thing to gain office, with the intention of doing exactly the opposite if elected.
      • You deliberately and calculatedly abused trust placed in you by pupils and staff.
      • In this calculatedly familiar populist myth, what appears to be a clash of national cultures is, in fact a class conflict: real people vs. rich people and/or country vs. city.
      • I held my breath and awaited a reply as you shifted your weight delicately, calculatedly.
      • His tall, impressive frame was leaning back comfortably in the big chair behind his desk, the trademark curl of jet-black hair dangling across his brow in a calculatedly insouciant manner.
      • I've said that the old regime must be the only regime in the history of the world that deliberately, calculatedly, as a matter of policy, destroyed the skills base of the country's working class.
      • They sit somewhere, with malice aforethought, and coldly and calculatedly take someone's character apart.
      • His voice was calculatedly calm, betrayed by occasional outbursts of frustration.
      • If anything could be more calculatedly red-rag to a bull, I don't know what it is.
      • The movie calculatedly attempts to replicate the things that made the original successful, and fails.
      • He deliberately and calculatedly chose the county fair to kick off his presidential campaign.
      • We must consciously and calculatedly plan to prepare our people to compete to promote and defend our interests and aspirations.
 
 

Definition of calculated in US English:

calculated

adjectiveˈkalkyəˌlādədˈkælkjəˌleɪdəd
  • (of an action) done with full awareness of the likely consequences.

    victims of vicious and calculated assaults
    a calculated decision
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The new employees haven't understood that having a liberal returns policy is a calculated financial decision on our part.
    • Still, if the price is a psychological barrier, rather than a calculated decision, the investor probably shouldn't be buying anyway.
    • That's what makes music great, it's an emotional, personal impulse, not a calculated decision.
    • This trial judge, as I read her Honour's findings, found the conduct at least towards the end of the impulsive scale rather than closer to a calculated decision.
    • The evidence suggests the cover-up was conscious, calculated and ongoing.
    • ‘You took a pre-meditated, calculated and awful revenge,’ the judge told him.
    • The idea seems to have caught on in the market for housing accessories where every decision is a calculated choice, often involving the whole family.
    • First, an adult might make a calculated decision ‘to bury the hatchet.’
    • Officials generally believe that war results from a calculated, purposive, conscious decision.
    • I took down the details more out of frustration with my job, a wish to explore other avenues, than a calculated decision to study art.
    • Jane accuses the firm of using a calculated strategy to fire her because she had been there 11 years and was paid a higher salary than new workers.
    • Rudd has taken a calculated decision to go public.
    • Sensing the shift in ruling circles, and the possibility of winning government, they made a calculated decision that their best interests lay in burying the whole issue.
    • The peculiar humour of the book has endured a harmless populist transformation, but that does not play like a disadvantageous calculated decision but like inspired fun.
    • The experience-its calculated mystery, its silliness-was fun, but the whole phenomenon begs the question: what for?
    • I find that she made a calculated decision post-separation to ‘run down the clock’ on the property and financial issues with her husband.
    • No-one thought that the concentration camp was a natural disaster: everyone knew that it was the calculated consequence of an evil vision.
    • Providing you think things through before you buy, you can be sure that you will make a calculated decision.
    • The company made a calculated business decision that the number of people it needed to compensate would be less than the profits.
    • The judge called the attempted robbery planned and calculated and said he had a duty to protect the public and vulnerable premises.
    Synonyms
    deliberate, premeditated, planned, pre-planned, preconceived, intentional, intended, done on purpose, purposeful, purposive, thought out in advance
 
 
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