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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forecast
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
long-range planning/plan/forecast etc
▪ a long-range weather forecast
▪ the long-range goal of the project
shipping forecast
the sales forecast (=how much a company expects to sell )
▪ The sales forecast is for a 12% increase in sales over the current year.
the weather forecast (=a description of what the weather is expected to be like in the near future)
▪ What’s the weather forecast like for the weekend?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dire
▪ Good shape despite the dire forecasts still being made by much of the business world?
▪ The most dire forecasts say rising mercury on Earth could bring about both devastating floods and droughts.
▪ That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast.
▪ Take the current fascination with dire forecasts, for example.
early
▪ The Treasury has stuck to its earlier forecast of a £15 billion current-account deficit this year.
▪ The jobless rate is expected to be an average 8. 25 percent, up from an earlier forecast of 8 percent.
economic
▪ But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark.
▪ The government is soon due to publish revisions for its 1996 economic forecasts.
▪ One has only to look at the economic forecasts.
▪ Perhaps they've heard the economic forecast.
gloomy
▪ We had beaten his gloomy forecast of 12 minutes and I had sculled the whole course without once catching a crab.
▪ San Diego City Council members began getting concerned about the gloomy forecasts about a month ago.
▪ The gloomy forecast came from Chris Haskins, chairman of the dairy and chilled food business.
▪ Using a historical analysis, Nehring and Van lest provide a rather gloomy set of forecasts.
initial
▪ The model is then used to estimate the consequences of specified policies different to those assumed in the initial base forecast.
▪ The initial forecast was for 2. 5 million pounds a year, but consumers were clamoring for more.
late
▪ The latest hair forecasts are that blond will rebound into prominence, overtaking red, in the next few months.
optimistic
▪ In this case, the construction timetable proved wrong, as did very optimistic forecasts concerning the rates of inflation and interest.
▪ But nomatterhow optimistic the weather forecast, keep a raincoat handy if you intend taking a closeup.
▪ The most optimistic forecast severely reduced activity in residential property; others expected static house sales until the end of the year.
▪ The results were wildly ahead of the Democrats' most optimistic forecasts.
■ NOUN
profit
▪ Shareholders get nothing more than a bald one-year profit forecast.
▪ Olivetti shares have tumbled 15 percent since last week as analysts downgraded profit forecasts.
▪ You can also conduct profit forecasts, identify profitable work and problem areas.
▪ James Capel has, it appears, lopped £25m from its profit forecast and now expects £165m.
▪ City analysts immediately slashed their profit forecasts from around £15m to around £5m.
▪ He added that a downgrading in profit forecasts was normal in a recession.
weather
▪ It may cheer you up to learn that the weather forecast is promising.
▪ The weather forecast was for overcast skies, like three hundred and ten other days of the year in Rochester.
▪ From weather forecasts to climate change, Anthony Wilson looks at causes, effects and extremes of weather.
▪ It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast.
▪ None the less, it should not surprise you to know that these people rarely prepare weather forecasts.
▪ And the weather forecast is promising - now, what do you fancy?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dire warning/prediction/forecast
▪ He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions.
▪ Take the current fascination with dire forecasts, for example.
▪ That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast.
▪ The dire warnings of world shortages have not come to pass.
▪ The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.
▪ The most dire forecasts say rising mercury on Earth could bring about both devastating floods and droughts.
▪ When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.
short-range plan/goal/forecast etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ According to the weather forecast, it's going to stay hot for the rest of the week.
▪ Apex Corp. has issued its annual sales forecast.
▪ It is impossible to give an accurate forecast of company sales 10 years from now.
▪ the weather forecast
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark.
▪ Each warned after the stock market closed on Friday that profits will fall below analysts' forecasts.
▪ Food giant Hillsdown Holdings added 8p to 130p after a maintained dividend forecast and boardroom shake-up.
▪ These forecasts will be based on information on the number of children in a school augmented by headteachers' estimates.
▪ You want a forecast for the series?
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
analyst
▪ City analysts are forecasting that its contribution could be as much as £80m for the full year.
▪ The company earned 98 cents a share, below analysts forecast of $ 1. 11, according to Zacks Investment Research.
▪ In the bottom-up approach, investment analysts produce earnings forecasts on the basis of detailed research into the firm's activities.
▪ City analysts are forecasting pre-tax profits of £38m this year.
growth
▪ Total public spending held at planned £244.5 million. 1% growth forecast for 1993.
▪ The rate of growth for 1990 was forecast at between 4.8 percent and 5.2 percent compared with 5.6 percent in 1989.
increase
▪ For example, it forecast an increase in unemployment of 3,000 for 1986-87; in fact unemployment fell by 6,800.
▪ One forecasts a huge increase in the ever-escalating costs of the Trident programme.
▪ Government is poised to forecast a huge increase in the extraction of aggregates-one third of which go to roads.
▪ And the Retail Motor Industry Federation forecast an increase of 100,000 sales which would boost 1922 figures to around 1.8m.
▪ Overall, we forecast an increase in leisure spending of almost 15 percent between now and 1995.
loss
▪ Now schools are forecasting more job losses as £7m comes off the education budget.
profit
▪ None the less, he has cut his full-year profits forecast from £235 million to £220 million.
▪ He has lifted his profits forecast for this year slightly to £950 million and expects a 15 percent rise in the dividend.
▪ They have cut this year's profit forecast by £18m to £570m.
▪ The paper-maker, Bowater, still basking in an optimistic profits forecast for the full year, firmed 7p to 507p.
rate
▪ At the beginning of the year the government forecast that the rate of inflation for 1988 would be only 32 percent.
▪ Then on Wednesday night he forecast that interest rates would drop - fuelling the City boom.
▪ In 1987, Mr Salvigsen again hit a home run when he forecast that interest rates would spike up.
▪ Paribas also forecasts a rate of 1. 55 marks to the dollar later this year.
weather
▪ The weather forecast at the time of going to press was good for this time of the year.
▪ Teaching tip Ask pupils to monitor the weather for a week and compare their observations with the local weather forecasts.
▪ Good weather was forecast across the state for Monday.
▪ Never risk parking out overnight without checking the weather forecast for a strong wind warning or the approach of a cold front.
▪ But with more cold weather forecast that's not likely to happen right away.
▪ These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications.
▪ And his check with expensive weather forecasting services shows this may actually be a warmer-than-expected winter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hardly anyone had forecast that the drought would last so long.
▪ Property analysts forecast a fall in house prices.
▪ Rain is forecast for all parts of southern England tomorrow.
▪ Wind and rain has been forecast for this weekend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Analyzing the past, forecasting the future.
▪ The company forecast further growth in 1996.
▪ The fixed interest rate means you know exactly your commitment each month, which saves problems with forecasting your cashflow.
▪ Then on Wednesday night he forecast that interest rates would drop - fuelling the City boom.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forecast

Forecast \Fore*cast"\, v. i. To contrive or plan beforehand.

If it happen as I did forecast.
--Milton.

Forecast

Forecast \Fore"cast\, n. Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.

He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves.
--Addison.

2. A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation; as, the weather forecast.

His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp.
--Prescott.

Forecast

Forecast \Fore*cast"\, v. t.

  1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

    He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds.
    --Dan. xi. 24.

  2. To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for; as, to forecast the weather; to forecast prices.

    It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences.
    --L'Estrange.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forecast

late 14c., "to scheme," from fore- "before" + casten in the sense of "contrive, plan, prepare" (late 14c.; see cast (v.)). Meaning "predict events" first attested late 15c. (cast (v.) "to perceive, notice" is from late 14c.). Related: Forecasted; forecasting.

forecast

early 15c., "forethought, prudence," probably from forecast (v.). Meaning "conjectured estimate of a future course" is from 1670s. A Middle English word for weather forecasting was aeromancy.\n

Wiktionary
forecast

n. 1 An estimation of a future condition. 2 A prediction of the weather. vb. 1 To estimate how something will be in the future. 2 (context obsolete English) To contrive or plan beforehand.

WordNet
forecast
  1. n. a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop [syn: prognosis]

  2. v. predict in advance [syn: calculate]

  3. judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure]

  4. indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, predict]

Wikipedia
Forecast

Forecast may refer to:

  • Forecasting, the process of making statements about events which have not yet been observed
  • Weather forecasting, the application of science and technology to predict the weather
  • FORECAST (model), system for managing ecosystems and forest growth
  • Forecast, an ability attributed to the Pokémon Castform
  • Forecast (album), 1993 electronic music by 808 State
  • Forecast: Tomorrow, a 2006 compilation album by the jazz group Weather Report
  • "Forecast (Intro)", a song by Amerie from Because I Love It
Forecast (808 State album)

Forecast is an album by electronic music group 808 State which was released in 1993, exclusively in Japan. The album contains a collection of b-sides and remixes from the Gorgeous era.

FORECAST (model)

FORECAST is a management-oriented, stand-level, forest-growth and ecosystem-dynamics model. The model was designed to accommodate a wide variety of silvicultural and harvesting systems and natural disturbance events (e.g., fire, wind, insect epidemics) in order to compare and contrast their effect on forest productivity, stand dynamics, and a series of biophysical indicators of non-timber values.

Usage examples of "forecast".

By the exercise of the gift of divination it would seem that Hassan of Aleppo had forecast the future history of the accursed slipper or believed that he had done so.

As the forecast is now that Benghazi cannot be captured till the end of February, it is necessary that this should be impressed upon General Wavell.

The revolutionary forecast that bombs might actually be carried from one country to another and dropped on cities proved remarkably prophetic.

He refurbishes the Mercedes star, forecasts the rise and fall of Borgward, disposes of Marshall Plan funds, is present when the Ruhr Authority meets, dismisses the Constitution before it is approved by the Parliamentary Council, fixes the date of the currency reform, counts votes before the first Bundestag elections are held, builds the imminent Korean crisis into the shipbuilding program of the Howaldt Works of Kiel and Hamburg, arranges the Petersberg Agreement, picks a certain Dr.

By 6:30, when Carrara was able to leave his office, the parking lot had been plowed, although the forecast was for more of the white stuff overnight.

Farther off was an area of dark mist that spread along the horizon, broken its entire length by a range of forbidding-looking mountains about ten sizes bigger than the ones we had passed through after leaving Klamath Falls, their peaks set so close together, they might have been a graph forecasting the progress of a spectacularly erratic business.

Naturally, these forecasts tended to reflect the response of the current market and current customers and tended to discount the possible response of other markets and customers.

The latest information on long-scale weather forecasting through direct observation of terrestrial jet-streams would not compare with radioscopes and proton storms.

The latest information on long-scale weather forecasting through direct observation of terrestrial jet streams would not compare with radioscopes and protonstorms.

It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.

Knowing how hard she was going to have ii to work, she forced herself to eat some breakfast, switching on the radio so that she could listen to the weather forecast while she ate.

I seemed particularly to be consulted by racehorse trainers seeking perfect underfoot conditions for their speedy hopefuls, even though we did run forecasts dedicated to particular events.

Caspar Harvey lunch was one of those times when I gave the top two forecasts, at six-thirty and nine-thirty each evening, daily working out the probable path of air masses and going in front of the cameras at peak times to put my assessments on the line.

I would be happy to help him with last-minute underfoot forecasts, I murmured.

A turbid flood of ideas, of vague surmises, of apprehensions, of forecasts, swept across her consciousness.