CALCULATED


Meaning of CALCULATED in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kælkjʊleɪtɪd ]

1.

If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.

Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings...

ADJ : v-link ADJ to-inf

2.

If you say that something is not calculated to have a particular effect, you mean that it is unlikely to have that effect.

Such a statement was hardly calculated to deter future immigrants.

= likely

ADJ : with brd-neg , v-link ADJ to-inf

3.

You can describe a clever or dishonest action as calculated when it is very carefully planned or arranged.

Irene’s cleaning the floor had been a calculated attempt to cover up her crime.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

4.

If you take a calculated risk, you do something which you think might be successful, although you have fully considered the possible bad consequences of your action.

ADJ : ADJ n

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