0 present 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.
Turning to the life scenarios, crossovers into the past tended to occur wherever the narrators had difficulty envisaging or talking about their futures.
Presumably, we are envisaging a situation in which the government will ban reliance on seniority.
Envisaging a neutral, ahistoric bond is nave because national identity always i co-exists in relation to other projects.
On the basis of this experience we are envisaging new applications of the algorithm in the area of demand aggregation.
Within two generations, urban reformers would be envisaging the construction of idealized semi-rural environments consciously distanced from the hurlyburly of production and exchange.
How should historians go about envisaging such a definition?
Thus, the architect's criticism (of the world) does not end with description, the real task is envisaging and articulating an alternative.
The second was the apocalyptic envisaging of the rise, degeneration and fall of civilisations as propounded in the writings of both scholarly and popularising twentieth-century metahistorians.
