foreseefore‧see /fɔːˈsiː $ fɔːr-/ ●○○ verb (past tense foresaw /-ˈsɔː $ -ˈsɒː/, past participle foreseen /-ˈsiːn/) [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
I’ve put your name on the list and I don’t foresee any problems. The disaster could not have been foreseen.foresee that Few analysts foresaw that oil prices would rise so steeply.foresee what/how etc No one foresaw what he was planning.► see thesaurus at predict
Verb TableVERB TABLE
foresee
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | foresee |
| he, she, it | foresees | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | foresaw |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have foreseen |
| he, she, it | has foreseen | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had foreseen |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will foresee |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have foreseen |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Businesses are alarmed at the costs they foresee in complying with the new rules.
- No one foresaw the Great Depression of the thirties.
- Scientists foresee humans living on Mars within the next 200 years.
- Ten years ago she could not have foreseen that her marriage would end in divorce.
- As the General had so clearly foreseen, there was no way out.
- Everything she had foreseen had come true.
- No wonder the men failed to foresee what a forceful leader she would be.
- None had foreseen the assumption of absolute power by one of their own number.
- The only serious potential obstacle to the plan foreseen at the time was litigation by employer and union groups.
- Yet it is hard to see what violence the police foresaw as direct and immediate.
THESAURUS► predict
Collocations to say that something will happen, before it happens: · In the future, it may be possible to predict earthquakes.· Scientists are trying to predict what the Amazon will look like in 20 years' time.
► forecast to say what is likely to happen in the future, especially in relation to the weather or the economic or political situation: · They’re forecasting a hard winter.· Economists forecast that there would be a recession.
► project to say what the amount, size, cost etc of something is likely to be in the future, using the information you have now: · The world’s population is projected to rise by 45%.
► can say especially spoken be able to know what will happen in the future: · No one can say what the next fifty years will bring.· I can’t say exactly how much it will cost.
► foretell to say correctly what will happen in the future, using special religious or magical powers: · The woman claimed that she had the gift of foretelling the future.· It all happened as the prophet had foretold.
► prophesy to say that something will happen because you feel that it will, or by using special religious or magical powers: · He’s one of those people who are always prophesying disaster.· The coming of a great Messiah is prophesied in the Bible.· He prophesied that the world would end in 2012.· Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself.
► foresee to know that something is going to happen before it happens: · They should have foreseen these problems.· No one foresaw the outcome of the war.
► have a premonition to have a strange feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, usually just before it happens: · Suddenly I had a strange premonition of danger ahead.
Longman Language Activatorto think you know what is going to happen in the future► foresee to know that something is going to happen before it actually happens: · No one foresaw the Great Depression of the thirties.· Businesses are alarmed at the costs they foresee in complying with the new rules.foresee that: · Ten years ago she could not have foreseen that her marriage would end in divorce.
► envisage also envision to have a clear idea of something that will happen in the future, especially important changes in a situation: · I cannot envisage what the circumstances will be in twenty years' time.· Most of those who voted for independence did not envision war as the eventual outcome.· We do not envisage a general election for at least another two years.
► see something coming to know or think you know what is going to happen because there are signs that it will: · Jason saw the stock market crash coming and sold most of his shares.· Then one day she just walked out -- I suppose I should have seen it coming really.
► feel something in your bones informal to think that something is going to happen, especially something bad, not for any clear or specific reason, but just because you have a feeling that it will: · The trip's going to be a disaster - I can feel it in my bones.
► have a premonition to have a strange or unexplainable feeling that something is going to happen, especially something unpleasant: have a premonition (that): · When Paola failed to phone, John had a horrible premonition that she was in danger.have a premonition of: · She shivered suddenly, and I wondered whether she had had a premonition of her own death.
► see into the future someone who can see into the future has the ability to know what will happen before it happens: · If I could only see into the future and know how this would all end.· Nobody can see into the future, and all stock exchange investment is a gamble.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► how
to think or know that something is going to happen in the future → predict: · Even so, few foresaw how far and how fast the autonomy system would develop.
NOUN► change· Entrepreneurs are mistakenly assumed to have the ability to foresee change.· Block funding comes from social services, and Mrs Allen does not foresee any change after April.
► consequence· The people who did that were probably well intentioned and did not foresee the consequences.· Crazy Horse foresaw the consequence of his surrender.
► difficulty· That alone made him foresee difficulties.· They will need to foresee some of the difficulties the culture will encounter.· Mr Chin had foreseen this difficulty and made sure that no child had majority control of any of the family companies.
► future· But then we couldn't have foreseen your future, or mine.· Some experts foresee a future in which nobody would buy a spreadsheet program or word processor.· It also increasingly removes one from the contemporary marketplace, and makes it even more difficult to foresee the future.· For her own part, she was filled with neither hope nor dread, rather a fatalistic inability to foresee the future.· And general manager, Bob Hunt, foresees a great future, particularly through the development of higher added-value and high-technology products.· However, the intention was also to try and foresee some of the future developments.
► possibility· We have just occupied Vienna; a far-sighted man could have foreseen the possibility some considerable time ago.· Pericles, having perhaps foreseen the possibility, had warned his friend to make the plates easily detachable.· There was no need to show that she foresaw the possibility of some harm.
► problem· It is often amazing how the most insignificant contributor to a project can foresee the subtlest problem and devise a solution.· Even though he could foresee the problem then, we can see it equally well now.· He insists that he can foresee problems arising in the new century.· Like her gynaecologist, he could foresee no problems.· It is possible to foresee other evidential problems.· Incidentally, I foresee a major problem looming next season.
I’ve put your name on the list and I don’t foresee any problems. The disaster could not have been foreseen.foresee that Few analysts foresaw that oil prices would rise so steeply.foresee what/how etc No one foresaw what he was planning.► see thesaurus at predict