foreseeablefore‧see‧a‧ble /fɔːˈsiːəbəl $ fɔːr-/ adjective 
The situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.2in the foreseeable future fairly soon: There is a possibility of water shortages in the foreseeable future.3foreseeable difficulties, events etc should be planned for because they are very likely to happen in the future: The judge found that it was not foreseeable that the fuel would catch fire. foreseeable risk
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Due to rising costs and delays in the delivery of equipment, losses are already foreseeable on the new tunnel project.
- Employers must be told in advance when a leave of absence is foreseeable - such as for the birth of a baby.
- There will not be any redundancies in the foreseeable future.
- Your insurance policy should take into account all foreseeable circumstances.
- A General Council of all the Churches does not seem to be a realistic possibility in the foreseeable future.
- In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury.
- In discussing this question, an Illinois court observed that hindsight makes every event foreseeable.
- Some property damage was foreseeable and the fact that it was more extensive than might have been foreseen did not matter.
- They created a duty of care imposed on builders and owed to foreseeable victims of their negligence.
- To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.
Longman Language Activatorable to be predicted
· The drug is usually effective but unfortunately the side effects are not always predictable.· There are few predictable elements to this conflict -- the only certainty is that the situation will worsen before it gets better.it is predictable that · In the current economic climate it is fairly predictable that unemployment will continue to rise.
able to be predicted within a particular period of time in the future: · Due to rising costs and delays in the delivery of equipment, losses are already foreseeable on the new tunnel project.in the foreseeable future: · There will not be any redundancies in the foreseeable future.foreseeable circumstances: · Your insurance policy should take into account all foreseeable circumstances.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The judge found that it was not foreseeable that the fuel would catch fire.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The judge found that it was not foreseeable that the fuel would catch fire. (=as far into the future as you can possibly know)· The population is expected to keep growing for the foreseeable future.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· For a duty to arise, some damage to the plaintiff must be reasonably foreseeable.· Under this theory, the courts have held schools liable for student injuries that are reasonably foreseeable.· Assume that a duty of care is owed by A to C as a rescue was reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances.· That question calls for consideration of what was reasonably foreseeable as the future consequences of the careless act.· Would the death be reasonably foreseeable?
NOUN· But the idea of full-blown solar power stations is unrealistic in the foreseeable future.· Can you live with this lifestyle for the foreseeable future? 9.· Arguments about this change continue to rage, and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future.· To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.· And the mad requests of potential customers should keep Microjet pretty busy for the foreseeable future.· Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future.· The project provides a control and information system that meets the needs of the Barcelona company for the foreseeable future.· We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future!
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1for/in the foreseeable future for as long as it is possible to know what is likely to happen: - Arguments about this change continue to rage, and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future.
- It would be unrealistic to not expect to pay higher royalties in the foreseeable future.
- Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future.
- No test of the planned system against even average-intelligence decoys is planned in the foreseeable future.
- Now, and for the foreseeable future, the world is awash in plutonium.
- She is sure that this will settle them for the foreseeable future.
- To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.
- There is a possibility of water shortages in the foreseeable future.
- But the idea of full-blown solar power stations is unrealistic in the foreseeable future.
- He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future.
- Is redundancy, early retirement, or any other major change possible or likely in the foreseeable future?
- Some of the causes of default, such as socioeconomic conditions, can not be changed in the foreseeable future.
- To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.
- We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future!
The situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.2in the foreseeable future fairly soon: There is a possibility of water shortages in the foreseeable future.3foreseeable difficulties, events etc should be planned for because they are very likely to happen in the future: The judge found that it was not foreseeable that the fuel would catch fire. foreseeable risk