prediction

Definition

Examples

Analysts made a prediction that prices would rise next year.

Word Family

Synonyms

• forecasta prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
• prognosisa prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
• anticipationan expectation

Collocations

• Easy make a weather prediction
  to create, produce, or cause regarding a weather prediction
• Medium accurate financial revenue prediction
  describing accurate financial revenue prediction (conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy)
• Hard defy dire economic predictions of recession
  to defy dire economic predictions of recession, meaning to resist or confront with resistance
• Very Hard self-fulfilling prediction triggering market panic
  a collocation phrase: self-fulfilling prediction triggering market panic