Elicitation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of eliciting, or of drawing out.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of eliciting.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of eliciting; or, an elicited thing.
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  • noun. stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
  • Word Usage
    "Where data is scarce, regulators supplement calculations with knowledgable opinion - what the industry calls "expert elicitation," in which experts are asked to speculate."
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