reckon
reckon
/ˈrekən/
1 transitive, intransitive reckon (that)… (especially British English, informal) to think something or have an opinion about something I reckon (that) I’m going to get that job.
He'll be famous one day. What do you reckon (= do you agree)?
It's worth a lot of money, I reckon.
‘They'll never find out.’ ‘You reckon?’ (= I think you may be wrong about that)
2 be reckoned transitive (not used in the progressive tenses) to be generally considered to be something be reckoned to be/have something Children are reckoned to be more sophisticated nowadays.
+ noun/adj. It was generally reckoned a success.
3 transitive reckon to do something (British English, informal) to expect to do something We reckon to finish by ten.
He wasn’t reckoning to pay so much.
4 transitive to calculate an amount, a number, etc. reckon something I could see him reckoning the cost as I spoke.
be reckoned at something The age of the earth is reckoned at about 4.6 billion years.
My debts were reckoned at $12 000.
reckon (that)… They reckon (that) their profits are down by at least 20%.
it is reckoned that… It is generally reckoned that about half of all job vacancies are never advertised publicly.
be reckoned to do something The journey was reckoned to take about two hours.
The trip was reckoned to take over two days.
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Word Origin
Old English (ge)recenian ‘recount, relate’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch rekenen and German rechnen ‘to count (up)’. Early senses included ‘give an account of items received’ and ‘mention things in order’, which gave rise to the notion of “calculation” and hence of “being of an opinion”.
e.g.
I reckon the ship passage and the operation would cost about 200 yen. 渡航費と手術代 ドンブリ勘定でざっと二百円 (/yupeco/『ゴールデンカムイ』1話)