educated guess
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educated guess
noun educated guesses
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A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.
Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.
Similar: guesstimate, intelligent guess · Opposite: uneducated guess
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noun guess based on experience or knowledge
| 中文 | 有根據的推測 /有根据的推测 yǒu gēnjù de tuīcè |
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| Português | palpite fundamentado, suposição fundamentada, hipótese fundamentada, hipótese plausível |
| Français | supposition éclairée, supposition bien informée, hypothèse raisonnée, hypothèse raisonnable, hypothèse bien fondée, estimation éclairée |
| Deutsch | fundierte Vermutung |
| Italiano | stima ragionata, ipotesi plausibile, supposizione plausibile |
| Русский | обосно́ванное предположе́ние obosnóvannoje predpoložénije, предположе́ние predpoložénije |
| العربية | تَخْمِين مَدْرُوس taḵmīn madrūs |
| עברית | ניחוש מושכל |
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