backcast

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
2. verb To change retrospectively; reverse.
3. noun A cast or throw back.
4. noun A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
5. noun Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
6. noun Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
7. noun Retrospect; hindsight.
8. noun backwater

Similar words

look ahead plan on hindcast retrodict see beyond forecast backshadow backstep backchain foreconstruct

Often followed by

and is to with in will or of should