- [singular] a judgement or opinion about the value or quality of somebody/something
- Who is the best candidate in your estimation?
- Since he left his wife he's certainly gone down in my estimation (= I have less respect for him).
- She went up in my estimation (= I have more respect for her) when I discovered how much charity work she does.
- In my estimation, you've done a good job.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + estimation- go up in
- rise in
- go down in
- …
- in somebody’s estimation
- [countable] a judgement about the levels or quantity of something
- Estimations of our total world sales are around 50 million.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘comprehension, intuition’, also ‘valuing, a valuation’): from Latin aestimatio(n-), from aestimare ‘determine, appraise’ (see estimate).
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