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COST ESTIMATOR

Specialty Definition: COST ESTIMATOR

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Occupations

Analyzes blueprints, specifications, proposals, and other documentation to prepare time, cost, and labor estimates for products, projects, or services, applying knowledge of specialized methodologies, techniques, principles, or processes: Reviews data to determine material and labor requirements and prepares itemized lists. Computes cost factors and prepares estimates used for management purposes, such as planning, organizing, and scheduling work, preparing bids, selecting vendors or subcontractors, and determining cost effectiveness. Conducts special studies to develop and establish standard hour and related cost data or effect cost reductions. Consults with clients, vendors, or other individuals to discuss and formulate estimates and resolve issues. May specialize according to particular service performed, type of product manufactured, or phase of work involved, such as tool and fixture costs, production costs, construction costs, or material costs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: COST ESTIMATOR

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Books

  • 2002 National Painting Cost Estimator (National Painting Cost Estimator, 2002) (reference)

  • 2003 National Painting Cost Estimator (National Painting Cost Estimator, 2003) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COST ESTIMATOR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

construction cost estimator

32

building cost estimator

20

cost estimator

19

closing cost estimator

7

cost estimator living

7

cost estimator home improvement

6

cost estimator replacement

5

home cost estimator

5

concrete cost estimator

5

home building cost estimator

5

residential construction cost estimator

4

cost estimator fence

3

free construction cost estimator

3

construction cost estimator home

3

moving cost estimator

3

painting cost estimator

2

cost estimator home replacement

2

cost estimator roofing

2

cost estimator foot square traveler

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: COST ESTIMATOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-t"

-2 letters: microstates.

-3 letters: costmaries, estimators, microstate, staterooms.

-4 letters: acrosomes, acrotisms, amorettos, amortises, atomisers, attestors, ceramists, coattests, corotates, estimator, mistraces, mistreats, motorises, motorists, ostracise, ostracism, sarcosome, scattiest, scimetars, stateroom, stormiest, straitest, strictest, tattooers, teratisms, testators, toastiest, tortoises, totemists.

-5 letters: acrosome, acrotism, amitoses, amoretti, amoretto, amorists, amortise, amosites, artistes, artsiest, asterism, astricts, atomiser, atomises, atomists, attestor, casteism.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-t"
 

+2 letters: prostatectomies.

 

+4 letters: magnetostrictions.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COST ESTIMATOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 53 54      45 53 54 49 4D 41 54 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010011 01010100 00100000 01000101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#32 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#77 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0053 0054      0045 0053 0054 0049 004D 0041 0054 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374953542395354434735544952

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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