Definition of forestall in English:

forestall

verb fɔːˈstɔːlfɔrˈstɔl

[with object]

1Prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking advance action.
they will present their resignations to forestall a vote of no confidence
Example sentencesExamples
- Can you imagine what these good liberals would have said if it had been America that was insisting on forestalling elections because the results could be dangerous or unpredictable?
- To forestall property-tax increases, for instance, some homeowner groups recommended higher business taxes.
- Agricultural authorities, it appears, are deaf to the pleas of farmers desperate to forestall an impending disaster.
- In face of this social misery, the ruling coalition has resorted to forestalling parliamentary elections and thwarting an inquiry into corruption.
- The very idea made her heart race, but he raised a finger, forestalling her outburst.
- Republican efforts to repeal estate taxes and lower income taxes - predominantly of benefit to the wealthy - is now being marketed to the public as a way to stimulate the economy and to forestall an economic downturn.
- Japan's ‘lost decade’ provides vivid testimony to the fact that pervasive government intervention merely forestalls the market clearing mechanism, rather than purging it of its speculative excesses.
- Immediately after winning the battle, he resumed the policies that had forestalled military success.
- Why, I even remember back to the end of 2001, when the general mood seemed to favor bold action to forestall future catastrophe.
- But wise investment in more sensible equipment can help forestall disasters that undermine the confidence of citizens in their institutions.
- Concentrated oil wealth at the top has forestalled political change.
- While these actions are indeed forestalling a severe downturn, they are significantly increasing the probabilities for much worse down the road.
- So what I hope out of this will come, further cooperation and more affective cooperation than we saw in evidence, that might have forestalled the incident today.
- An accurate prediction, even though actual debate was forestalled by a campaign of misinformation and intimidation.
- I've claimed to be a member of all sorts of wacky political movements in order to forestall political polls.
- That being the case, Christians must welcome, rather than object to, any measure to forestall fraudulent conversions.
- Immense US efforts at state-building in Afghanistan remain necessary to forestall this disaster.
- But, to forestall a rebellion among the unemployed, they skew the numbers each month to make the problem seem far less than it is.
- In order to forestall this unhappy eventuality, she proposes restricting the use of the money to child care, education for the parent, or retirement benefits for the parent.
- In addition, thanks to medicine's success in curing disease and forestalling death, it is not clear that we haven't produced a culture in which death is even more unacceptable and more feared than ever before.
Synonyms
pre-empt, get in before, get ahead of, steal a march on, anticipate, second-guess, nip in the bud, thwart, frustrate, foil, stave off, ward off, fend off, avert, preclude, obviate, prevent, intercept, check, block, hinder, impede, obstruct
informal beat someone to it, beat someone to the draw/punch
1. 1.1 Act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something.
  he would have spoken but David forestalled him
  Example sentencesExamples
  Chris looked to interrupt, but Sam held up a hand, forestalling him.
  We will make a few suggestions here in an attempt to forestall readers from making avoidable mistakes.
  He seemed about to speak, but Rowena forestalled him with a kiss.
  To forestall him, however, supporters of the fallen ministers in Paris were now planning a very different sort of coup: popular intervention on a scale not seen since the ill-fated Champ de Mars petition the year before.
  Jenica turned, eyes blazing, to Brian, but he forestalled her.
  He closed his eyes, raising a hand to forestall her.
  He opened his mouth, to address that - again - but she forestalled him.
  Hoping to forestall Henry by attacking and demoralising his supporters, Stephen laid siege to Wallingford Castle on the Thames, a dozen miles south-east of Oxford.
  He would have spoken, but David forestalled him.
  She touched his tears with a hand that trembled, but when she tried to speak, he forestalled her, touching his fingers to her lips.
  You'll see a solution as to whether or not you can cut him down, to throw him, to avoid what is happening, to forestall him before he can actually bring the attack to bear.
  This is to forestall your opponent by starting an action before he begins attack on you.
  I don't want her reporting this car to the police, and I didn't know what else to offer to forestall her.
  I opened my mouth to argue with him, although he was right, but Timur's next words forestalled me.
  He reached to touch me and I pulled back a little, forestalling him.
  But I am writing these lines while I have the chance to do so, before events forestall me.
  He recovered on the 19th, but by then, Stalin, whose confidence in his generals was always easily shaken, had decided to hedge his bet by forestalling the Americans.
  So I put up a hand to forestall him and said, ‘It's working quite well, thank you.’
  He'd opened his mouth to snap back a reply when he was forestalled by a resounding yelp from the creature.
  Or you can advance seemingly strongly but with a reserved spirit, forestalling him with the reserve.
2. 1.2historical Buy up (goods) in order to profit by an enhanced price.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although the laws against engrossing and forestalling were repealed in 1772, regulation of wages and prices still remained on the statute book and consumers could also appeal to the common law.

Derivatives

forestaller

noun

In practice juries were rarely interested in establishing whether a forestaller was aiming to create a monopoly or whether any degree of monopoly had in fact been created.
Example sentencesExamples
- The machine innovators were frequently viewed in the same way the moral economy treated the forestaller and regrater in the marketplace.
- Goods brought by outsider merchants were to be sold only in official marketplaces, without any interference from hosts or forestallers.
- Concerning this relationship, this interplay, contrasting views are to be found: for some religion was a forestaller of philosophical development, while for others it was a cause of the same.
- If he knows anything of the arts, of history, of economics, or of science, he had better forget it, or else use it as a forestaller would a knowledge of the time when prices should be raised.

forestalment

noun

Long destitute of credit and resources, he looked upon his appointment as the incontestable source of instant wealth, and he hesitated not to determine upon the forestalment of its profits to entertain the ‘first gentleman in England.’
Example sentencesExamples
- It was the walk which Swithin had taken in the rain when he had learnt the fatal forestalment of his stellar discovery; but now he was moved by a less desperate mood, and blamed neither God nor man.
- Late in 1845 they moved to invade British India from a variety of motives; forestalment and self-preservation were two of them, but the thirst of the soldiers for power, natural pugnacity, and a desire on the part of the Government to involve their own Army in something other than internal strife, were greater influences.
- Enacted by Act V of 1928 and effective as from the 14th May, 1928 the aim of the law is to make provision for the safeguard of revenue and the prevention of forestalment.
- In the opening spring, there come rumours of forestalment, there come King's Edicts, Petitions of bakers against millers; and at length, in the month of April - troops of ragged Lackalls, and fierce cries of starvation!

Origin

Old English foresteall 'an ambush' (see fore- and stall). As a verb the earliest sense (Middle English) was 'intercept and buy up goods before they reach the market, so as to raise the price' (formerly an offence).

Rhymes

all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl

Definition of forestall in US English:

forestall

verbfôrˈstôlfɔrˈstɔl

[with object]

1Prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking action ahead of time.
vitamins may forestall many diseases of aging
Example sentencesExamples
- In order to forestall this unhappy eventuality, she proposes restricting the use of the money to child care, education for the parent, or retirement benefits for the parent.
- Japan's ‘lost decade’ provides vivid testimony to the fact that pervasive government intervention merely forestalls the market clearing mechanism, rather than purging it of its speculative excesses.
- While these actions are indeed forestalling a severe downturn, they are significantly increasing the probabilities for much worse down the road.
- Why, I even remember back to the end of 2001, when the general mood seemed to favor bold action to forestall future catastrophe.
- In addition, thanks to medicine's success in curing disease and forestalling death, it is not clear that we haven't produced a culture in which death is even more unacceptable and more feared than ever before.
- An accurate prediction, even though actual debate was forestalled by a campaign of misinformation and intimidation.
- To forestall property-tax increases, for instance, some homeowner groups recommended higher business taxes.
- Can you imagine what these good liberals would have said if it had been America that was insisting on forestalling elections because the results could be dangerous or unpredictable?
- I've claimed to be a member of all sorts of wacky political movements in order to forestall political polls.
- Republican efforts to repeal estate taxes and lower income taxes - predominantly of benefit to the wealthy - is now being marketed to the public as a way to stimulate the economy and to forestall an economic downturn.
- But wise investment in more sensible equipment can help forestall disasters that undermine the confidence of citizens in their institutions.
- The very idea made her heart race, but he raised a finger, forestalling her outburst.
- Agricultural authorities, it appears, are deaf to the pleas of farmers desperate to forestall an impending disaster.
- That being the case, Christians must welcome, rather than object to, any measure to forestall fraudulent conversions.
- Immense US efforts at state-building in Afghanistan remain necessary to forestall this disaster.
- But, to forestall a rebellion among the unemployed, they skew the numbers each month to make the problem seem far less than it is.
- So what I hope out of this will come, further cooperation and more affective cooperation than we saw in evidence, that might have forestalled the incident today.
- Immediately after winning the battle, he resumed the policies that had forestalled military success.
- Concentrated oil wealth at the top has forestalled political change.
- In face of this social misery, the ruling coalition has resorted to forestalling parliamentary elections and thwarting an inquiry into corruption.
Synonyms
pre-empt, get in before, get ahead of, steal a march on, anticipate, second-guess, nip in the bud, thwart, frustrate, foil, stave off, ward off, fend off, avert, preclude, obviate, prevent, intercept, check, block, hinder, impede, obstruct
1. 1.1 Act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something.
  she started to rise, but Erica forestalled her and got the telephone
  Example sentencesExamples
  He closed his eyes, raising a hand to forestall her.
  He opened his mouth, to address that - again - but she forestalled him.
  Or you can advance seemingly strongly but with a reserved spirit, forestalling him with the reserve.
  Jenica turned, eyes blazing, to Brian, but he forestalled her.
  I opened my mouth to argue with him, although he was right, but Timur's next words forestalled me.
  Chris looked to interrupt, but Sam held up a hand, forestalling him.
  This is to forestall your opponent by starting an action before he begins attack on you.
  I don't want her reporting this car to the police, and I didn't know what else to offer to forestall her.
  To forestall him, however, supporters of the fallen ministers in Paris were now planning a very different sort of coup: popular intervention on a scale not seen since the ill-fated Champ de Mars petition the year before.
  She touched his tears with a hand that trembled, but when she tried to speak, he forestalled her, touching his fingers to her lips.
  You'll see a solution as to whether or not you can cut him down, to throw him, to avoid what is happening, to forestall him before he can actually bring the attack to bear.
  We will make a few suggestions here in an attempt to forestall readers from making avoidable mistakes.
  He recovered on the 19th, but by then, Stalin, whose confidence in his generals was always easily shaken, had decided to hedge his bet by forestalling the Americans.
  He reached to touch me and I pulled back a little, forestalling him.
  He'd opened his mouth to snap back a reply when he was forestalled by a resounding yelp from the creature.
  He seemed about to speak, but Rowena forestalled him with a kiss.
  He would have spoken, but David forestalled him.
  So I put up a hand to forestall him and said, ‘It's working quite well, thank you.’
  Hoping to forestall Henry by attacking and demoralising his supporters, Stephen laid siege to Wallingford Castle on the Thames, a dozen miles south-east of Oxford.
  But I am writing these lines while I have the chance to do so, before events forestall me.
2. 1.2historical Buy up (goods) in order to profit by an enhanced price.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although the laws against engrossing and forestalling were repealed in 1772, regulation of wages and prices still remained on the statute book and consumers could also appeal to the common law.

Origin

Old English foresteall ‘an ambush’ (see fore- and stall). As a verb the earliest sense ( Middle English) was ‘intercept and buy up goods before they reach the market, so as to raise the price’ (formerly an offense).

单词	forestall
释义	Definition of forestall in English: forestall verb fɔːˈstɔːlfɔrˈstɔl [with object] 1Prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking advance action. they will present their resignations to forestall a vote of no confidence Example sentencesExamples Can you imagine what these good liberals would have said if it had been America that was insisting on forestalling elections because the results could be dangerous or unpredictable? To forestall property-tax increases, for instance, some homeowner groups recommended higher business taxes. Agricultural authorities, it appears, are deaf to the pleas of farmers desperate to forestall an impending disaster. In face of this social misery, the ruling coalition has resorted to forestalling parliamentary elections and thwarting an inquiry into corruption. The very idea made her heart race, but he raised a finger, forestalling her outburst. Republican efforts to repeal estate taxes and lower income taxes - predominantly of benefit to the wealthy - is now being marketed to the public as a way to stimulate the economy and to forestall an economic downturn. Japan's ‘lost decade’ provides vivid testimony to the fact that pervasive government intervention merely forestalls the market clearing mechanism, rather than purging it of its speculative excesses. Immediately after winning the battle, he resumed the policies that had forestalled military success. Why, I even remember back to the end of 2001, when the general mood seemed to favor bold action to forestall future catastrophe. But wise investment in more sensible equipment can help forestall disasters that undermine the confidence of citizens in their institutions. Concentrated oil wealth at the top has forestalled political change. While these actions are indeed forestalling a severe downturn, they are significantly increasing the probabilities for much worse down the road. So what I hope out of this will come, further cooperation and more affective cooperation than we saw in evidence, that might have forestalled the incident today. An accurate prediction, even though actual debate was forestalled by a campaign of misinformation and intimidation. I've claimed to be a member of all sorts of wacky political movements in order to forestall political polls. That being the case, Christians must welcome, rather than object to, any measure to forestall fraudulent conversions. Immense US efforts at state-building in Afghanistan remain necessary to forestall this disaster. But, to forestall a rebellion among the unemployed, they skew the numbers each month to make the problem seem far less than it is. In order to forestall this unhappy eventuality, she proposes restricting the use of the money to child care, education for the parent, or retirement benefits for the parent. In addition, thanks to medicine's success in curing disease and forestalling death, it is not clear that we haven't produced a culture in which death is even more unacceptable and more feared than ever before. Synonyms pre-empt, get in before, get ahead of, steal a march on, anticipate, second-guess, nip in the bud, thwart, frustrate, foil, stave off, ward off, fend off, avert, preclude, obviate, prevent, intercept, check, block, hinder, impede, obstruct informal beat someone to it, beat someone to the draw/punch 1.1 Act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something. he would have spoken but David forestalled him Example sentencesExamples Chris looked to interrupt, but Sam held up a hand, forestalling him. We will make a few suggestions here in an attempt to forestall readers from making avoidable mistakes. He seemed about to speak, but Rowena forestalled him with a kiss. To forestall him, however, supporters of the fallen ministers in Paris were now planning a very different sort of coup: popular intervention on a scale not seen since the ill-fated Champ de Mars petition the year before. Jenica turned, eyes blazing, to Brian, but he forestalled her. He closed his eyes, raising a hand to forestall her. He opened his mouth, to address that - again - but she forestalled him. Hoping to forestall Henry by attacking and demoralising his supporters, Stephen laid siege to Wallingford Castle on the Thames, a dozen miles south-east of Oxford. He would have spoken, but David forestalled him. She touched his tears with a hand that trembled, but when she tried to speak, he forestalled her, touching his fingers to her lips. You'll see a solution as to whether or not you can cut him down, to throw him, to avoid what is happening, to forestall him before he can actually bring the attack to bear. This is to forestall your opponent by starting an action before he begins attack on you. I don't want her reporting this car to the police, and I didn't know what else to offer to forestall her. I opened my mouth to argue with him, although he was right, but Timur's next words forestalled me. He reached to touch me and I pulled back a little, forestalling him. But I am writing these lines while I have the chance to do so, before events forestall me. He recovered on the 19th, but by then, Stalin, whose confidence in his generals was always easily shaken, had decided to hedge his bet by forestalling the Americans. So I put up a hand to forestall him and said, ‘It's working quite well, thank you.’ He'd opened his mouth to snap back a reply when he was forestalled by a resounding yelp from the creature. Or you can advance seemingly strongly but with a reserved spirit, forestalling him with the reserve. 1.2historical Buy up (goods) in order to profit by an enhanced price. Example sentencesExamples Although the laws against engrossing and forestalling were repealed in 1772, regulation of wages and prices still remained on the statute book and consumers could also appeal to the common law. Derivatives forestaller noun In practice juries were rarely interested in establishing whether a forestaller was aiming to create a monopoly or whether any degree of monopoly had in fact been created. Example sentencesExamples The machine innovators were frequently viewed in the same way the moral economy treated the forestaller and regrater in the marketplace. Goods brought by outsider merchants were to be sold only in official marketplaces, without any interference from hosts or forestallers. Concerning this relationship, this interplay, contrasting views are to be found: for some religion was a forestaller of philosophical development, while for others it was a cause of the same. If he knows anything of the arts, of history, of economics, or of science, he had better forget it, or else use it as a forestaller would a knowledge of the time when prices should be raised. forestalment noun Long destitute of credit and resources, he looked upon his appointment as the incontestable source of instant wealth, and he hesitated not to determine upon the forestalment of its profits to entertain the ‘first gentleman in England.’ Example sentencesExamples It was the walk which Swithin had taken in the rain when he had learnt the fatal forestalment of his stellar discovery; but now he was moved by a less desperate mood, and blamed neither God nor man. Late in 1845 they moved to invade British India from a variety of motives; forestalment and self-preservation were two of them, but the thirst of the soldiers for power, natural pugnacity, and a desire on the part of the Government to involve their own Army in something other than internal strife, were greater influences. Enacted by Act V of 1928 and effective as from the 14th May, 1928 the aim of the law is to make provision for the safeguard of revenue and the prevention of forestalment. In the opening spring, there come rumours of forestalment, there come King's Edicts, Petitions of bakers against millers; and at length, in the month of April - troops of ragged Lackalls, and fierce cries of starvation! Origin Old English foresteall 'an ambush' (see fore- and stall). As a verb the earliest sense (Middle English) was 'intercept and buy up goods before they reach the market, so as to raise the price' (formerly an offence). Rhymes all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl Definition of forestall in US English: forestall verbfôrˈstôlfɔrˈstɔl [with object] 1Prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking action ahead of time. vitamins may forestall many diseases of aging Example sentencesExamples In order to forestall this unhappy eventuality, she proposes restricting the use of the money to child care, education for the parent, or retirement benefits for the parent. Japan's ‘lost decade’ provides vivid testimony to the fact that pervasive government intervention merely forestalls the market clearing mechanism, rather than purging it of its speculative excesses. While these actions are indeed forestalling a severe downturn, they are significantly increasing the probabilities for much worse down the road. Why, I even remember back to the end of 2001, when the general mood seemed to favor bold action to forestall future catastrophe. In addition, thanks to medicine's success in curing disease and forestalling death, it is not clear that we haven't produced a culture in which death is even more unacceptable and more feared than ever before. An accurate prediction, even though actual debate was forestalled by a campaign of misinformation and intimidation. To forestall property-tax increases, for instance, some homeowner groups recommended higher business taxes. Can you imagine what these good liberals would have said if it had been America that was insisting on forestalling elections because the results could be dangerous or unpredictable? I've claimed to be a member of all sorts of wacky political movements in order to forestall political polls. Republican efforts to repeal estate taxes and lower income taxes - predominantly of benefit to the wealthy - is now being marketed to the public as a way to stimulate the economy and to forestall an economic downturn. But wise investment in more sensible equipment can help forestall disasters that undermine the confidence of citizens in their institutions. The very idea made her heart race, but he raised a finger, forestalling her outburst. Agricultural authorities, it appears, are deaf to the pleas of farmers desperate to forestall an impending disaster. That being the case, Christians must welcome, rather than object to, any measure to forestall fraudulent conversions. Immense US efforts at state-building in Afghanistan remain necessary to forestall this disaster. But, to forestall a rebellion among the unemployed, they skew the numbers each month to make the problem seem far less than it is. So what I hope out of this will come, further cooperation and more affective cooperation than we saw in evidence, that might have forestalled the incident today. Immediately after winning the battle, he resumed the policies that had forestalled military success. Concentrated oil wealth at the top has forestalled political change. In face of this social misery, the ruling coalition has resorted to forestalling parliamentary elections and thwarting an inquiry into corruption. Synonyms pre-empt, get in before, get ahead of, steal a march on, anticipate, second-guess, nip in the bud, thwart, frustrate, foil, stave off, ward off, fend off, avert, preclude, obviate, prevent, intercept, check, block, hinder, impede, obstruct 1.1 Act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something. she started to rise, but Erica forestalled her and got the telephone Example sentencesExamples He closed his eyes, raising a hand to forestall her. He opened his mouth, to address that - again - but she forestalled him. Or you can advance seemingly strongly but with a reserved spirit, forestalling him with the reserve. Jenica turned, eyes blazing, to Brian, but he forestalled her. I opened my mouth to argue with him, although he was right, but Timur's next words forestalled me. Chris looked to interrupt, but Sam held up a hand, forestalling him. This is to forestall your opponent by starting an action before he begins attack on you. I don't want her reporting this car to the police, and I didn't know what else to offer to forestall her. To forestall him, however, supporters of the fallen ministers in Paris were now planning a very different sort of coup: popular intervention on a scale not seen since the ill-fated Champ de Mars petition the year before. She touched his tears with a hand that trembled, but when she tried to speak, he forestalled her, touching his fingers to her lips. You'll see a solution as to whether or not you can cut him down, to throw him, to avoid what is happening, to forestall him before he can actually bring the attack to bear. We will make a few suggestions here in an attempt to forestall readers from making avoidable mistakes. He recovered on the 19th, but by then, Stalin, whose confidence in his generals was always easily shaken, had decided to hedge his bet by forestalling the Americans. He reached to touch me and I pulled back a little, forestalling him. He'd opened his mouth to snap back a reply when he was forestalled by a resounding yelp from the creature. He seemed about to speak, but Rowena forestalled him with a kiss. He would have spoken, but David forestalled him. So I put up a hand to forestall him and said, ‘It's working quite well, thank you.’ Hoping to forestall Henry by attacking and demoralising his supporters, Stephen laid siege to Wallingford Castle on the Thames, a dozen miles south-east of Oxford. But I am writing these lines while I have the chance to do so, before events forestall me. 1.2historical Buy up (goods) in order to profit by an enhanced price. Example sentencesExamples Although the laws against engrossing and forestalling were repealed in 1772, regulation of wages and prices still remained on the statute book and consumers could also appeal to the common law. Origin Old English foresteall ‘an ambush’ (see fore- and stall). As a verb the earliest sense ( Middle English) was ‘intercept and buy up goods before they reach the market, so as to raise the price’ (formerly an offense).
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