0 past simple and past participle of envisage
1 to imagine or expect something in the future, especially something good:
Train fare increases of 15 percent are envisaged for the next year.
[ + that ] It's envisaged that building will start at the end of this year.
[ + -ing verb ] When do you envisage finishing the project?
[ + question word ] It's hard to envisage how it might happen.
He wasn't what I'd expected - I'd envisaged someone much taller.
I say that these are two conditions which would have to be fulfilled in any envisaged eschatological redemption of the past.
As research shows here and elsewhere, children of the elite - envisaged by colonial authorities as future leaders of ' friendly ' (ex) colonies - often resisted attending school.
Thus, this complex gene structure and organization could be envisaged as a strategy to regulate gene expression, designed by a parasite lacking transcriptional regulation mechanisms.
Initially it was envisaged that this book would offer possible solutions for the transformation of children's services.
Two volumes, which will provide a systematic treatment of the subject, are envisaged, of which this is the first.
We envisaged a family of configurations in which the thickness 2h of the film tended to zero.
However, much less thought seems to have been given to how to transform the current system into the system envisaged by the reform.
Although the composer envisaged smaller forces and an electronic instrument, the piece loses nothing by its present expansion.
