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  • noun Plural form of projection.

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Examples

  • The Obama adminstration made clear Monday that it supports looking for more commercial and government spectrum to meet what it calls projections of "explosive" wireless bandwidth demands.

    Multichannel News: Business News 2010

  • “Yawn, more projections from the teabagger lunatic domestic terrorists … zzzz …”

    Think Progress » Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks. 2010

  • The bank has tried to fudge the issue by saying its near-term projections don't form the basis of policy making anyway, while the "medium term" target at which they aim to bring inflation down has stealthily been pushed to three years from two.

    Hawkish Rumblings at the BOE Alen Mattich 2011

  • This has upset the government's short- and medium-term projections, he said.

    India Fiscal Deficit May Be Wider than Projected Anant Vijay Kala 2012

  • Though long-term projections are always far less accurate than short-term ones, we estimate the commission plan would balance the budget and bring the debt down to 40 percent of GDP by 2035.

    Bowles and Simpson vs. do-nothingism 2011

  • Yawn, more projections from the teabagger lunatic domestic terrorists … zzzz …

    Think Progress » Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks. 2010

  • To do this, they used World Bank data for growth up until 2009, PwC's short-term projections for the years up until 2014 and their long-term growth assumptions for 2015 to 2050, which rely on assumptions about population growth, increases in human and physical capital, and the rate at which poorer countries can catch up with the more advanced technologies used in developed nations.

    GDP projections from PwC: how China, India and Brazil will overtake the West by 2050 2011

  • If the plan is ready for this summer's CBO long-term projections, it will give an immediate boost to economic growth and job creation as uncertainty about debt sustainability falls.

    A Two-Track Plan to Restore Growth John B. Taylor 2011

  • “The trouble with projections is that they extrapolate from the current reality, and often end up undershooting the mark,” Sunil Paul, a founding partner of Spring Ventures, a firm that invests in cleantech, told me.

    The Elusive Green Economy 2009

  • “The trouble with projections is that they extrapolate from the current reality, and often end up undershooting the mark,” Sunil Paul, a founding partner of Spring Ventures, a firm that invests in cleantech, told me.

    The Elusive Green Economy 2009

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