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- n. Plural form of estimate.
Examples
“He cited what he called the estimates of the "most serious" revisionists that "between 200,000 and 300,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber.”
“The trouble with all government "estimates" is that they always fail to meet their mark.”
“But the Obama administration, citing estimates from the Urban Institute, the human resources consulting company Mercer and others, says the law isn't responsible for any increase greater than 1 to 2 percent.”
“In fact, the estimates from a wide range of experts say the stimulus has saved or created more than 3 million jobs.”
The Washington Post: Democrats suffer from Americans' unwillingness to accept economic reality
“Note: I am NOT disputing purported cost levels nor a 50% increase in estimates, rather would like to see proof.”
“Earthworks, a U. S.-based non-profit organization campaigning against the mine, expects the Pebble project to produce 10 billion tons of waste during its lifetime based on initial resource estimates from the partnership.”
The Wall Street Journal: Opposition to Alaska Mine Builds Up Among Jewelers
“Using the dollar estimates from the CBPP that would be $720 billion.”
“And the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reports that the CBO's long-term estimates are, in fact, extremely optimistic.”
The Washington Post: It's official: The debt is ballooning. Now can we think clearly?
“The estimates is that its gonna double by the time Obama is done.”
“Just extending budgets and reallocating money from other programs to cover the inadequate (or purposely underbid) estimates from the proposal phase is wrong.”
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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GHibbs The 3rd person singular of the verb 'to estimate': 'he or she estimates.' Sep 2, 2011