See Also: snag(3)(dictionary)
snag(medicine)
snag(1)(dictionary)
snag(5)(dictionary)
snag(4)(dictionary)
snag(2)(dictionary)
snag 2, verb(dictionary)
snag 1, noun(dictionary)
estimate(2)(dictionary)
estimate(1)(dictionary)

estimate(1) (iou) and snag(3) (iou)


estimate(1) (iou)



estimate noun. LME.
[from the verb, or perh. from Latin aestimatus verbal noun, from aestimare: see ESTEEM verb, -ATE1.]
Intellectual ability or comprehension. Only in LME.
The action or an act of valuing or appraising; (a) valuation. M16-L17.
Repute, reputation. L16-M17.
A judgement of the character or qualities of a person or thing, or of a state of affairs etc.; estimation, opinion. L16.
T. Hardy The journey was a fearfully heavy one..at her own estimate. P. Larkin He was mistaken if he expected her to be flattered by his estimate of her.
An approximate judgement of the number, quantity, position, etc., of something; the number etc. so assigned. M17.
G. Berkeley The estimates we make of the distance of objects. Lyndon B. Johnson The police estimate of the total crowd..was more than a quarter of a million.
b. In pl. The statements of proposed public expenditure that the British Government presents to Parliament each year. M18.
A statement produced by a contractor or Other tradesman of the price he or she expects to charge or will charge for doing a specified job; the price so stated. M18.

snag(3) (iou)



snag noun3. [snag] Austral. colloq. M20.
[Origin unkn.]
A sausage.