Forecasting definition

Making an informed guess about the direction of an individual investment, a market, or the economy as a whole. Research analysts forecast their view on the price direction of individual stocks. A market strategist forecasts what direction he or she thinks the market will head. Chief eco-nomic strategists forecast a variety of their views on what direction they think economic growth, inflation, and interest rates will take.
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Present participle of forecast.
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Noun

Singular:
forecasting
Plural:
forecastings

Forecasting Sentence Examples

  • Sometimes, he kept himself entertained by forecasting what happened without letting himself peek at the details.

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  • For 2008, we are forecasting a modest upturn in the pace of UK GDP growth, to 2.5% .

  • Once more, the notion that this indeterminate body contains potentially in itself the fundamental contraries - hot, cold, &c. - by the excretion or evolution of which definite substances were generated, is clearly a forecasting of that antithesis of potentiality and actuality which from Aristotle downwards has been made the basis of so many theories of development.

  • My course has prepared me to be able to manage the entire design process from trend forecasting to garment production.

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