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"etymology_text": "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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"Of an investment, to make sense financially or to be expected to generate the desired returns"
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"(business) Of an investment, to make sense financially or to be expected to generate the desired returns"
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"(business) To roughly calculate the expected returns of an investment"
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"etymology_text": "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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