Word Finder - forestalling

verb

definition

To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.

example

Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.

definition

To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.

definition

To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.

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To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.

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To deprive (with of).

definition

To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.

Examples of forestalling in a Sentence

The benefit of the disafforestment existed only for the owner of the lands; as to all other persons the land was forest still, and the king's wild beasts were to "have free recourse therein and safe return to the forest, without any hurt or destruction other than by the owners of the lands in the purlieu where they shall be found, and that only to hunt and chase them back again towards the forest without any forestalling" (Manwood, On the Forest Laws - article "Purlieu") .

These codes show the willingness of boards to regulate themselves, thus forestalling the need for government to intervene with codes of its own.

Britain, it was true, acting on the initiative of George Canning, had seized the Danish fleet, thus forestalling an action which Napoleon certainly contemplated; but on the other hand Denmark now allied herself with him; and while in Lombardy he heard of the triumphant entry of his troops into Lisbon - an event which seemed to prelude his domination in the Iberian Peninsula and thereafter in the Mediterranean.

Bagration was to make this march without resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as possible.

Deposit insurance was designed not just to reimburse bank customers in the event of a bank failure, but also to reassure bank customers that it was safe to leave their money in a bank, forestalling further bank runs.

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