Usually means: Prediction of future events, trends.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word FORECAST:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. forecast: Merriam-Webster
  2. forecast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forecast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forecast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forecast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forecast, forecast: Wordnik
  7. forecast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forecast: Wiktionary
  9. forecast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forecast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forecast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Forecast, forecast: Dictionary.com
  13. forecast (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. forecast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FORECAST (model), Forecast (album), Forecast (disambiguation), Forecast, The Forecast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Forecast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. forecast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. forecast: Rhymezone
  19. forecast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. forecast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. forecast: FreeDictionary.org
  22. forecast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. forecast: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. forecast: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. forecast: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. FORECAST: Accounting Glossary
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. Forecast: Disaster Management
  5. forecast: Legal dictionary
  6. forecast: Financial dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Forecast: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. forecast: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. forecast: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forecast: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Forecast: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See forecastable as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (forecast)

▸ verb:  To estimate how something will be in the future.
▸ verb:  To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
▸ noun:  An estimation of a future condition.
▸ noun:  A prediction of the weather.
▸ noun:  (gambling) exacta

Similar:
foretell, foreshadow, predict, auspicate, prefigure, prognosticate, bode, presage, portend, prognosis, more...

Opposite:
improvise, guess, speculate, assume, disregard

Types:
weather forecast, economic forecast, sales forecast, population forecast, demand forecast, financial forecast, budget forecast, revenue forecast, more...

Phrases:
weather forecast, sales forecast, Forecast error, forecast period, forecast horizon, more...

Adjectives:
accurate, term, economic, optimistic, year, range, financial, best, gloomy, day, reliable

Colors:
    sky blue,     cloud white,     sunset orange,     hazy beige,     overcast gray, more...


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Similar:
foretell, foreshadow, predict, auspicate, prefigure, prognosticate, bode, presage, portend, prognosis, more...

Opposite:
improvise, guess, speculate, assume, disregard

Types:
weather forecast, economic forecast, sales forecast, population forecast, demand forecast, financial forecast, budget forecast, revenue forecast, more...

Phrases:
weather forecast, sales forecast, Forecast error, forecast period, forecast horizon, Financial forecast, consensus forecast, profit forecast, shipping forecast, statistical forecast, probability forecast, more...

Adjectives:
accurate, term, economic, optimistic, year, range, financial, best, gloomy, day, reliable

Colors:
    sky blue,     cloud white,     sunset orange,     hazy beige,     overcast gray, more...



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