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guesswork

[ ges-wurk ]

noun

  1. work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.


guesswork

/ ˈɡɛsˌwɜːk /

noun

  1. a set of conclusions, estimates, etc, arrived at by guessing
  2. the process of making guesses


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Word History and Origins

Origin of guesswork1

First recorded in 1715–25; guess + work

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Example Sentences

By attributing leads to their marketing efforts, real estate professionals figure out what inbound methods will bring high-quality leads with less guesswork.

There are no burnished edges or browned tops, because when we bake in an Instant Pot, we do so to achieve creamy textures, to save time and to remove guesswork.

Take the guesswork out of content ideation with these top-ranked content ideas.

Take the guesswork out of judging the contents and weight of your dishes with this Bluetooth-enabled scale from Etekcity that’ll both save time and increase the accuracy of your cooking.

It doesn’t take much guesswork to surmise who each of these tech titans is choosing as Election Day draws near.

From Vox

It's also almost 100% guesswork, at least for the period before 1976, and certainly for the period before 1925.

But in the end, predicting yield is still basically guesswork.

For future biographers of Kennedy, there can now be less guesswork and pop psychology.

Based on my experience with my own sources, guesswork about who is behind a story is often wrong.

It's always going to be very much a matter of insight, judgment, guesswork, and so forth.

As Bill walked back to his store he wondered how much Lowell actually knew, and how much had been shrewd guesswork.

The new system which is popularly supposed to have eliminated all guesswork has in reality done nothing of the kind.

No real scientist will waste his time on any guesswork like that.

Oh, I tell you t'eddn guesswork with they St. Helen's folk; male or female they got a nose for a wreck, same as cats for mice.

All statistics are nothing but guesswork, and the bigger they are the better people like them.

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