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foregoing

[fawr-goh-ing, fohr-]

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adjective

previously stated, written, or occurring; preceding: The foregoing paragraph presents the problem.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see forego¹, -ing²

Synonyms
precedent, previous, prior, earlier, former.

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Native speakers have no difficulty with the foregoing.

Specialists in modeling, control and optimization of the foregoing technology applications are also encouraged to apply.

Rather, he champions non-intervention: foregoing attempts to remake the world by military means, including sanctions.

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Native speakers have no difficulty with the foregoing.

Specialists in modeling, control and optimization of the foregoing technology applications are also encouraged to apply.

Rather, he champions non-intervention: foregoing attempts to remake the world by military means, including sanctions.

The defendant presented an affidavit of the foregoing facts, and claims that he is not liable upon civil process.

The article has been recast to correct the foregoing errors.

Foregoing accountability, on the other hand, often fails to result in the hoped for benefits.

We realize that many objections could be raised to the foregoing thumbnail sketch of leftist psychology.

Every state expenditure requires foregoing the expenditure on something else.

The foregoing description is undeniably a speculative reconstruction.

There is a lot of life indeed in the comments and retorts in the foregoing tweleve posts.

Spending all of one's money on consumption or foregoing it in order to build wealth.

The foregoing should not be taken as a defence of religious fundamentalism.

Ismail, a junior flanker and kick returner who is foregoing his last year of college.

So that should settle the matter, were the foregoing dictionary quotations not sufficient.

The first thing to be said about such criticisms, of which the foregoing is a mere sampling, is that they cannot all be right.

The foregoing is a correct statement of the public debt as appears from the books.

The foregoing are only some of the areas where regulatory efforts should be targeted.

Despite the foregoing criticisms, happiness research as it stands is far from useless.

Consumers underestimate the risks of foregoing insurance.

Bearing in mind that a lot of the foregoing is driven by the desire to attract targeted advertising to susceptible people.

My foregoing remarks might suggest that fiction is a gratuitous fabrication, a juggling devoid of transcendence.

Unfortunately, in the weak economy many people who do not have health conditions are foregoing buying insurance.

Probably the answer is that the foregoing is not the whole picture.

The upper house is more appointed by the principal clans and in numbers worked by out by the foregoing consitutional conventions.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -went, -gone, -go·ing.

to go before; precede.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English forgon, forgan, Old English foregān. See fore-, go¹

Related forms

fore·go·er, noun

verb (used with object), -went, -gone, -go·ing.

forgo.

Related forms

fore·go·er, noun

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foregoing (fɔːˈɡəʊɪŋ)

—*adj*
	(prenominal) (esp of writing or speech) going before; preceding

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Word Origin & History

forego

O.E. forgan "go away, pass over, leave undone," from for- "away" + gan "go." Usually in foregone conclusion, which was popularized in Shakespeare's "Othello" [III.iii], but his sense was not necessarily the main modern one of "a decision already formed before the case is argued." Related: Foregoing;

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foregone. The similar foredone is now archaic, replaced by done for.

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