reestimate

verb

re·​es·​ti·​mate (ˌ)rē-ˈe-stə-ˌmāt 

variants or re-estimate

reestimated or re-estimated; reestimating or re-estimating

intransitive verb

: to estimate (something) again especially in a different way

reestimated the percentages based on new data

… there has been a tendency in recent years on the part of the cognoscenti to reestimate the contribution made by [Giuseppe] Verdi.

—Aaron Copland

reestimation

(ˌ)rē-ˌe-stə-ˈmā-shən 

noun

or re-estimation

a careful reestimation of the costs

Examples of reestimate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Recently Fernando Mendez and his Stanford University collaborators reestimated the age of the time to the most recent common Y chromosome ancestor at 275,000 years, significantly older than the time of appearance of anatomically modern fossils in Africa. —Michael F. Hammer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016

Word History

First Known Use

1821, in the meaning defined above