English Explanatory Dictionary

pencil out

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. Of an investment, to make sense financially or to be expected to generate the desired returns.
  2. To roughly calculate the expected returns of an investment.

Word forms

pencil out pencils out penciling out pencilling out penciled out pencilled out

Etymology

From pencil + out (possibly based on or influenced by work out), the idea being that rough calculations are temporarily written in pencil rather than permanently written in pen.

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