envisage
verb /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/
/ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/
(especially British English) (North American English usually envision)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they envisage | /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ |
| he / she / it envisages | /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒɪz/ /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒɪz/ |
| past simple envisaged | /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒd/ /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒd/ |
| past participle envisaged | /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒd/ /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒd/ |
| -ing form envisaging | /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒɪŋ/ /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒɪŋ/ |
- to imagine what will happen in the future
- envisage something What level of profit do you envisage?
- envisage (somebody) doing something I can't envisage her coping with this job.
- I don’t envisage working with him again.
- it is envisaged that… It is envisaged that the talks will take place in the spring.
- envisage that… I envisage that the work will be completed next year.
- envisage how, where, etc… It is difficult to envisage how people will react.
Synonyms imagineimagine- think
- see
- envisage
- envision
- imagine to form an idea in your mind of what somebody/something might be like:
- The house was just as she had imagined it.
- think to imagine something that might happen or might have happened:
- We couldn’t think where you’d gone.
- Just think—this time tomorrow we’ll be lying on a beach.
- see to consider something as a future possibility; to imagine somebody as something:
- I can’t see her changing her mind.
- His colleagues see him as a future director.
- envisage (especially British English) to imagine what will happen in the future:
- I don’t envisage working with him again.
- envision to imagine what a situation will be like in the future, especially a situation that you intend to work towards:
- They envision an equal society, free from poverty and disease.
- to imagine/see/envisage/envision somebody/something as something
- to imagine/see/envisage/envision (somebody) doing something
- to imagine/think/see/envisage/envision who/what/how…
- to imagine/think/envisage/envision that…
Extra Examples- I cannot envisage myself playing again next season
- It was never envisaged that this would be a long-term solution.
- It was originally envisaged that the talks would take place in the spring.
- Eventually she did end up involved in politics, but not in the way she had originally envisaged.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- initially
- originally
- currently
- …
- can
- be difficult to
- be hard to
- …
- envisage yourself doing something
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French envisager, from en- ‘in’ + visage ‘face’.