0 past simple and past participle of envisage --
1 to imagine or expect something in the future, especially something good: --
He wasn't what I'd expected - I'd envisaged someone much taller.
[ + question word ] It's hard to envisage how it might happen.
[ + -ing verb ] When do you envisage finishing the project?
[ + that ] It's envisaged that building will start at the end of this year.
Train fare increases of 15 percent are envisaged for the next year.
He envisaged that such a declaration would be reinforced by real progress towards stabilisation.
A number of cases are reasonably described metaphorically as the reading of a virtual document, differing in the kind of document envisaged.
The policy process can be envisaged as a 'market place' of ideas in which the best wins and forms the basis for new policy.
Designers must also consider where information goes when they are finished with their task and who else will be affected by an envisaged change.
The medium-term strategy of monetary policy, formally adopted in 1998, envisaged bringing inflation below 4% in 2003.
This, too, is part of the utopian picture of healthcare ethics envisaged by the aspiring physician deep ecologist and his or her future patients.
In short, strict intentionalism relies on applications of terms that the authors actually envisaged to decide the meaning of legal clauses.
Although the composer envisaged smaller forces and an electronic instrument, the piece loses nothing by its present expansion.
