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試算

しさん

trial calculation, estimate

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Examples

  1. 費用を試算した。

    ひようをしさんした。

    We made a trial calculation of the cost.

  2. 政府の試算では、人口は減り続ける。

    せいふのしさんでは、じんこうはへりつづける。

    According to government projections, the population will keep falling.

  3. 導入効果を試算して報告書にまとめた。

    どうにゅうこうかをしさんしてほうこくしょにまとめた。

    We calculated the likely benefits and put them in a report.

Common patterns

費用を試算する
to make a cost estimate
政府の試算
government projections
試算結果
the result of the trial calculation

Memory tip

The 試 is 'try': a provisional figure worked out to see roughly how things would come out, common in news about government or company projections. It is explicitly not the final authoritative number, which would be 算出.

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