Meaning
If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one.
Examples
We don’t know the exact cost, but a ballpark figure would be around six million dollars.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What does the idiom ‘a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate’ mean?
The idiom ‘go-getter’ means “to deal with a difficult situation without being harmed or damaged”
How do you use ‘a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate’ in a sentence?
Example usage of idiom ‘a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate’: Newspapers have weathered the storm of online information by providing news online themselves.