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forecast English

Meaning forecast meaning

What does forecast mean?
Definitions in simple English

forecast Verb

— To forecast is to make an educated guess about the future. His forecast of how much money the company would make this month was much higher than the actual amount.

forecast Noun

— A forecast is a prediction of the weather. What's the forecast for tomorrow?

forecast

— verb predict in advance — verb (= calculate) judge to be probable — noun (= prognosis) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop — verb (= bode) indicate by signs These signs bode bad news

Synonyms forecast synonyms

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forecast English » English

predict prediction foretell prognosis foresee anticipate prophesy prophecy prognosticate augur expectation foresight expect estimate divination calculate bode augury prognostication presage portend prevision prefigure guess foretelling foreshadow figure divine cast betoken anticipation weather forecast surmise second-guess reckon prospect projection outguess omen fortune-telling forestall forecasting forebode envision count on call budget brew auspicate weather prediction

Topics forecast topics

What do people use forecast to talk about?
Language and thought Think Expect

Predict
Universe, creation Sky

Weather

Conjugation forecast conjugation

How do you conjugate forecast?

forecast · verb

Examples forecast examples

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Simple sentences

The weather forecast is not necessarily reliable.
The weather forecast says we're in for heavy rain this evening.
Today's weather forecast says that it is likely to be fine tomorrow.
Today's weather forecast proved right.
The weather is forecast scientifically.
According to the weather forecast, tomorrow will be snowy.
The weather forecast is not reliable at all.
What's the weather forecast for tomorrow?
It snowed as was forecast.
They forecast it will be cloudy tomorrow.
According to the weather forecast, it will snow tomorrow.
According to the weather forecast it is going to snow tomorrow.
According to the weather forecast, a storm's coming.
According to the weather forecast, it's supposed to snow tomorrow.
According to the weather forecast, it'll snow tomorrow.
What's the forecast for tomorrow?
Four percent inflation is forecast for this year.
Rain is forecast for this evening.
The weather forecast was right.
The weather forecast says it will be cooler tomorrow.
The weather forecast said that it would rain this afternoon, but it didn't.
The weather forecast says that it's going to snow this evening.
According to the weather forecast, the typhoon is approaching Okinawa.
According to the weather forecast, it will clear up tomorrow.
According to the weather forecast, the rainy season will set in next week.

Movie subtitles

A careful study of the most scientific instruments and maps. lead to the following weather forecast.
Imagine how strange it would have seemed during the Pliocene age to forecast that worms, fish, lizards that crawled over the Earth would evolve into us.
What's the weather forecast?
Now let's look at the local weather forecast.
You're like a weather forecast.
The forecast is for sun all day.
Tomorrow, and the forecast. is storm and thunder.
What's the latest forecast?
The weather forecast.
From Spitzbergen, the weather forecast.
This is the BBC Home Service. Here's the weather forecast.
It's the shipping forecast, sir.
The forecast for this afternoon is intermittent entertainment between intermittent showers.
Is that the weather forecast?
Pay him my respects and inform him personally that the weather forecast for tonight is heavy fog.
That's international news for the moment. Now let's look at the weather forecast.
There's no exact forecast, but.
Well, there's no additional precipitation forecast for another 48 hours.
THE STORY OF A MAN WHO CAN FORECAST DEATH.
What's the forecast?
Forecast for tomorrow. forecast for tomorrow. hot.
Forecast for Bakersfield vicinity, clear and warm.
Perhaps the tea leaves will forecast failure, perhaps success.
The weatherman forecast sunshine today and it's raining.
Then the forecast is easy.
I can tell you right away that the weather forecast is rainy.
Define the weather forecast more precisely.
Volodya, what about the forecast?
The weather forecast is reliable.
Here's the weather forecast.
It just occurred to me that I did do the weather forecast. - for two weeks when Gordy was sick.
And that's the end of the weather forecast.
His feeler on the horseshoe, the grasshopper forecast.
You can see they forecast nice weather.
They forecast rain and it's fine.

News and current affairs

So, not surprisingly, economists are not in a good position to forecast how quickly it will end, either.
Weather forecasters cannot forecast far into the future, either, but at least they have precise mathematical models.
The remit of Sweden's fiscal council is particularly broad, giving it a mandate not only to forecast, but also to look more deeply at the motivations and consequences of government policy.
Indeed, a huge body of research shows that for most major currencies, the best forecast of next week's exchange rate, next month's exchange rate, or even next year's exchange rate is simply today's exchange rate.
It is not just that the profession didn't forecast the crisis.
For example, in order to prevent shortages, VillageReach, the organization for which I work, helped to correct the population figures used to forecast the number of vaccines needed in each health center.
The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.
Indeed, economists failed to forecast most of the major crises in the last century, including the severe 1920-21 slump, the 1980-82 back-to-back recessions, and the worst of them all, the Great Depression after the 1929 stock-market crash.
Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.
And we are forecast to surpass 450 ppm by 2038.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, confounding those who had forecast his political demise, re-emerged at the head of a populist-rightist coalition that ended up only 0.3 percentage points away from winning.
A decorated World War II veteran, Justice Stevens may well have thought that he was at least as qualified as the civilians in the Bush Justice Department to forecast the impact of the court's ruling on military efficiency.
Yet it is almost certainly the sort of forecast of which they should beware.
The emerging consensus was that the IMF forecast for 2009, issued as the meeting convened, of global stagnation - the lowest growth in the post-war period - was optimistic.
That forecast, moreover, is based on quite optimistic assumptions of strong economic growth and low interest rates.
There are, of course, serious downside risks to this forecast, especially if the fiscal deficit remains high or adverse tax policies depress the rise in productivity.
One common forecast is that as ever-more advanced robots substitute workers, the cost of labor will become less important, and manufacturing will move back to rich countries.
Despite the accident, global use of nuclear power looks set to grow steadily in the next 20 years, although at a slower rate than previously forecast.
If you can use patterns in Google searches to track flu outbreaks and predict a movie's commercial prospects, can you also use it to forecast market movements or even revolutions?
This bleak forecast marks the end of Colombia's longest cycle of growth in three decades, leaving the country in the same fragile situation as that of many other developing economies.
Indeed, the president is no longer required to provide the usual five-year forecast of the country's fiscal position.
And, indeed, the European Commission's most recent economic forecast shows that spending in the core countries has not increased as a result of the ECB's policies; Germany's external surplus is actually increasing.
The bubble is inflated further by the asymmetry between those who bet that prices will rise and buy, and those who forecast a fall, but stay out because to sell short is too costly.

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