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guess-work

guess-work is the alternative form of guesswork.

Meaning of guesswork

Noun

guesswork (countable and uncountable, plural guessworks)

  1. An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.
    • By a careful study of the figure we might suspect that when the rectangle becomes a square its area would be the greatest, but this would at best be mere guesswork. A better way would evidently be to plot the graph of the function (1) and note its behavior.1911, William Anthony Granville, Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus
    Synonyms:
    conjecture

Questions about guess-work

What is guess-work the alternative form of?
Guess-work is the alternative form of guesswork.

Words near guess-work in the dictionary

  1. guess cake
  2. guess the verb
  3. guess warp
  4. guess warps
  5. guess what
  6. guess-work
  7. guessability
  8. guessable
  9. guessably
  10. guessed
  11. guessedst

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