Usually means: Estimating without sufficient information available.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word guesswork:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. guesswork: Merriam-Webster
  2. guesswork: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guesswork: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guesswork: Collins English Dictionary
  5. guesswork: Vocabulary.com
  6. Guesswork, guesswork: Wordnik
  7. guesswork: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. guesswork: Wiktionary
  9. guesswork: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. guesswork: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. guesswork: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Guesswork, guesswork: Dictionary.com
  13. guesswork: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Guesswork: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. guesswork: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. guesswork: Rhymezone
  17. Guesswork: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. guesswork: FreeDictionary.org
  19. guesswork: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. guesswork: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. guesswork: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guesswork: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guesswork: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

Similar:
guess, shot, dead reckoning, educated guess, surmise, supposition, hunch, conjecture, speculation, anyone's guess, more...

Opposite:
certainty, certitude, certifiable, certified

Types:
speculation, conjecture, supposition, guess, estimate, hunch, more...

Phrases:
take the guesswork out, did a bit of guesswork, more...

Adjectives:
mere, pure, more, sheer, only, intelligent, informed, inspired, little, considerable, wild

Colors:
    gray,     silver,     charcoal,     mist,     cloud, more...

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Similar:
guess, shot, dead reckoning, educated guess, surmise, supposition, hunch, conjecture, speculation, anyone's guess, more...

Opposite:
certainty, certitude, certifiable, certified

Types:
speculation, conjecture, supposition, guess, estimate, hunch, more...

Phrases:
take the guesswork out, did a bit of guesswork, more...

Adjectives:
mere, pure, more, sheer, only, intelligent, informed, inspired, little, considerable, wild

Colors:
    gray,     silver,     charcoal,     mist,     cloud, more...



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