envisage
pronunciation
How to pronounce envisage in British English:
UK [ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ]
How to pronounce envisage in American English:
US [ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ]
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- Verb:
- form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
Word Origin
- envisage (v.)
- 1778, "look in the face of," from French envisager "look in the face of," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + visage "face" (see visage). Hence "to apprehend mentally, contemplate" (1837). Related: Envisaged; envisaging; envisagement.
Example
- 1. It melds fractures and helps envisage solidarity in our imbalanced and fractured world .
- 2. She couldn 't envisage going through with another birth .
- 3. All of these elements , analysts say , make it hard to envisage a co-ordinated challenge arising from unhappiness over unemployment in the short-term .
- 4. We do not envisage , as some have advocated , a rigid divide in future between " narrow banking " - retail and corporate deposit taking - and investment banking and trading conducted at an international level .
- 5. It is not ridiculous to envisage some of today 's hottest emerging markets trading on similar valuations after eruptions of political risk .