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figure on
verb
to depend on (support or help)
to take into consideration
Idioms and Phrases
Depend on, count on, as in We figured on your support .
Take into consideration, expect, as in We figured on his being late .
Plan, as in We'll figure on leaving at noon . All three colloquial usages date from about 1900.
Example Sentences
Martin often cut a smart-casual figure on the touchline with his previous clubs.
Helen Morrissey, head of retirement analysis at investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Once you've got an idea of what you want then you can start to put a figure on what that might cost and you can then use online calculators to see if what you've got in your pension will get you where you need to be."
The new chancellor is seeking to cut a far more assertive figure on support for Ukraine than his predecessor, Olaf Scholz.
He insisted they would not be "big" but refused to put a figure on how much the UK would pay.
Politically, the establishment fixture and once-dominant GOP figure on Capitol Hill has been sidelined by the ascent of President Donald Trump, a one-time ally who McConnell has since criticized as a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist” and “stupid as well as being ill-tempered.”
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