pencil out

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Of an investment, to make sense financially or to be expected to generate the desired returns.
  2. To roughly calculate the expected returns of an investment.

词形变化

pencils out present,singular,third-person penciling out US,participle,present pencilling out UK,participle,present penciled out US,participle,past penciled out US,past pencilled out UK,participle,past pencilled out UK,past

词源

From pencil + out (possibly based on or influenced by work out), the idea being that rough calculations are temporarily written in pencil rather than permanently written in pen.
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