fore'stalment
World English Dictionary
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to delay, stop, or guard against beforehand |
| 2. | to anticipate |
| 3. | a. to prevent or hinder sales at (a market, etc) by buying up merchandise in advance, etc |
| b. Compare corner to buy up (merchandise) for profitable resale | |
| [C14 forestallen to waylay, from Old English foresteall an ambush, from fore- in front of + steall place] | |
| fore'staller | |
| —n | |
| fore'stalment | |
| —n | |
| fore'stallment | |
| —n | |
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Fore'stalment
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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