CALCULATED


Meaning of CALCULATED in English

1.

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

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

ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf

2.

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

Such a statement was hardly ~ to deter future immigrants.

= likely

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

3.

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

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

ADJ: usu ADJ n

4.

If you take a ~ 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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