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- adjective calculated approximately.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
estimate .
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Examples
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The main reason was the sharp drop in oil prices and me steady growth in Brazil's domestic petroleum production, e.g., about 212 million barrels in 1988 at an estimated cost of $20 per barrel versus an estimated cost of alcohol of $45 per barrel according to Young (1989).
Chapter 7 1993
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£13,000 plus the cost of studio equipment, estimated at around £800, plus initial stock, estimated at around £15,000.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2010
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For instance you all might want to look up the term estimated tax payments, then try to apply it to a corp. like GE, or the others in Feisty's little cut and paste mess.
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Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period.
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Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period.
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Corporations can just factor in estimated fines as the cost of doing business.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship in 2009: It’s ‘very difficult’ to obey ‘nonsensical’ safety rules. 2010
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Corporations can just factor in estimated fines as the cost of doing business.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship in 2009: It’s ‘very difficult’ to obey ‘nonsensical’ safety rules. 2010
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Part of the [increase in estimated cost of the prescription drug plan from $400 billion to $720 billion] comes from earlier flim-flammery on the part of the Administration & congress, which projected costs from 2004-2013, even though the benefit didn't start until 2006.
Conservatives and the Bush Budget, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The 806 increase in estimated population from 1990 to the 1998 from 9,324 to 10,130, reflects a continuation of the slowing growth rate, due largely to the developed nature of Beachwood and decreasing developable land.
Beachwood Borough Master Plan, Part II « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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The fire that caused $2.5 million in estimated damages to the Immanuel Chapel at the Virginia Theological Seminary last week was ruled accidental.
Va. seminary fire ruled accidental Washington Post Editors 2010
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