Guess there’s one million in bequests? (8)
I believe the answer is:
estimate
'guess' is the definition.
(I know that guess can be written as estimate)
'there's one million in bequests?' is the wordplay.
'there's' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'million' becomes 'm' (abbreviation).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bequests?' becomes 'estate' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'i' next to 'm' is 'im'.
'im' going within 'estate' is 'ESTIMATE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for estimate that I've seen before include "damage" , "Judge the worth of" , "Calculate - valuation" , "Assess value" , "approximate price" .)