envisage

[US]/ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/
[UK]/ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. face up to; imagine.

Example Sentences

envisage an bright future

programs envisaged by the Government

The board envisages that there will be a high profit.

envisaged a world at peace.

He envisaged an old age of loneliness and poverty.

phase two envisaged a period to regroup and resupply.

Nobody can envisage the consequences of total nuclear war.

It should be quite simple; I don't envisage any difficulty.

the Rome Treaty envisaged free movement across frontiers.

When do you envisage being able to finish the experiment?

When do you envisage being able to pay me back?

Henry Ford envisaged an important future for the motor car.

Innovation is lineal economics fails to envisage the economy with illuminate all the time ascensive mechanism.

Real-world Examples

But the depressing effect is not quite what forecasters had envisaged in 2016.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Wven when I worked there, I'd never envisaged to live in there.

Source: Street interviews learning English

But bringing autonomous motoring to the world is proving harder than Google had envisaged.

Source: The Economist - Technology

Negotiations now will focus on the kind of relationship they envisage in the future.

Source: BBC Listening Collection February 2020

Only to end up back where you began shortly after and no closer to what you had envisaged.

Source: Essential Reading List for Self-Improvement

Not a prig. Just a man thrust into something he never wanted or envisaged.

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Segmented Version) Season 1

The draft also envisages amending the convention to give national judicial systems more wriggle room.

Source: The Economist - International

He said deals were envisaged with China, Iran, Russia and Ukraine.

Source: BBC Listening Collection August 2018

It's envisaged a trip will cost between 50 and $100.

Source: BBC Listening Collection July 2023

The fact that the bill envisages ending the FUT only in 2018 suggests Ms Bachelet's economic team realises this.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

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