estimate

ballpark estimate

An approximate estimate. Mary contacted several plumbers to get a ballpark estimate of the cost to fix her leaky toilet.

estimate the cost at

(some amount) to approximate the cost of something at a particular amount. I estimate the cost at about one hundred dollars. The cost of repairing the car was estimated at over four thousand dollars!

a ballpark estimate/figure

a number which is only approximate, but which should be near to the correct number We're expecting sales of the book to generate around $10,000 dollars, although obviously that's just a ballpark figure.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Svanhild	-	Norwegian, Norse Mythology
Florencia	flo-REN-thyah (Spanish), flo-REN-syah (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Marcela	mahr-THE-lah (Spanish), mahr-SE-lah (Latin American Spanish), mahr-TSE-lah (Polish), mahr-CHE-lah (Romanian), MAHR-tse-lah (Czech)	Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Czech
Nomusa	-	Southern African, Ndebele
Christophoros	-	Late Greek
Sorne	-	Basque