repair estimate

Cost to mend

A repair estimate is a written assessment of what it will cost to fix something—typically a vehicle, appliance, or property.

Mechanics, contractors, and technicians provide repair estimates before beginning work, giving customers a chance to approve or decline: The shop gave me a repair estimate of twelve hundred dollars for the transmission.

Estimates may be binding or subject to revision once work begins.

Opposites
finality/certainty

repair estimatefinal bill

Last invoice owed

actual cost · itemized bill · fixed price · payment due · closing statement

document purpose

repair estimateinvoice

Itemized billing statement

work order · service charge · collection notice

Family

repair, estimate, repairs, repaired, repairing, repairable, irreparable, reparation, reparations

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G