- carefully planned to get what you want
- He took a calculated risk (= a risk that you decide is worth taking even though you know it might have bad results).
- It was either a ridiculous mistake or a calculated insult.
- This was clearly a calculated attempt to discredit the company.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCalculated is used with these nouns:- gamble
- insult
- risk
- …
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Idioms
See calculated in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee calculated in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbe calculated to do something
- to be intended to do something; to be likely to do something
- Her latest play is calculated to shock.
- This sort of life is not calculated to appeal to a young man of 20.
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