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foresee

[fawr-see, fohr-]

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verb (used with object)

to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.

to see beforehand.

verb (used without object)

to exercise foresight.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English foresēon. See fore-, see¹

Related forms

fore·see·a·ble, adjective

fore·see·a·bil·i·ty, noun

fore·se·er, noun

un·fore·see·a·ble, adjective

un·fore·see·a·ble·ness, noun

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un·fore·see·a·b·ly, adverb

un·fore·see·ing, adjective

un·fore·seen, adjective

well-fore·seen, adjective

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Synonyms
1. divine, discern. See predict.

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Example Sentences

He doesn't foresee gaining access to the consortium anytime soon.

Conventional economic models failed to foresee the financial crisis.

Everyone finds this hard to believe and no one could possibly foresee this.

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He doesn't foresee gaining access to the consortium anytime soon.

Conventional economic models failed to foresee the financial crisis.

Everyone finds this hard to believe and no one could possibly foresee this.

We foresee no disruption whatsoever to our current relationships with global, blue chip brands and leading game publishers.

He may foresee an economy where the government rather than the private sector is the biggest source of job creation.

Discovery and the developers are open to suggestion, though, and foresee improvements to the app.

Calling it a bubble is an act of denial-emanating largely from those who have failed to foresee these development.

Eventually, they foresee doctors having this technology in their offices.

Many more failed to foresee how hard the locals would fight back-and how crowded the market would become.

He wanted to see if they could reliably foresee changes in ticket prices.

It certainly makes any tax revolt harder to foresee.

Rather, you set something in motion, and you can't foresee all the details.

Some people foresee the lights going out all over the world, as power stations crash.

Whatever the shape of the eventual coalition, it is hard to foresee a government that lasts a full four-year term.

But economists foresee a strong upturn, especially in manufacturing.

It could become the world's best database of household appliances and consumer electronics-and even foresee breakdowns.

Attempts to foresee epidemics such as these have traditionally relied on fieldwork on the ground.

They, along with many others, failed to foresee the risks.

Even simple rules of behaviour result in collective patterns that are impossible to foresee yet easy to recognise.

We do not at present foresee a major adjustment in fiscal spending sufficient to bring inflation down to single digits.

The risk posed by the array of candidates was less easy to foresee.

It seems only a certified psychiatrist is qualified to foresee what this newspaper will come up with next.

Even if industrial users foresee shortages, there are ample stocks of bullion in private hands to satisfy demand.

Two new training programs are set to begin, but labor experts still foresee chronic shortages well into the next decade.

If you do the numbers you will foresee a dramatic drop in electric power.

One of the applications they foresee is long-distance space travel.

Bernanke, who did not foresee the crisis but played a crucial role in the response.

Nobody worried too much about those remarkable rates of increase, because they didn't foresee the good times ending anytime soon.

Looking forward, researchers also foresee that real-time health monitoring can potentially help prevent disease.

Chertoff said he did not foresee the government becoming the net's protector or censor.

Unfortunately, some scientists foresee a problem that could make the viral carrier unsuitable for long term use:.

Over the course of their lifetimes, they confidently foresee the solutions to many seemingly intractable problems.

Looking ahead, executives foresee a day when people no longer need to fill in questionnaires on several dating sites.

Apparently, federal officials didn't foresee that it would be a runaway success.

Still, in any economic process, it's often difficult to foresee the second- and third-order effects of a decision.

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World English Dictionary

foresee (fɔːˈsiː)

—vb , -sees, -seeing, -saw, -seen
	(tr; may take a clause as object) to see or know beforehand: he did not foresee that

fore'seeable

—*adj*

fore'seer

—n

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Word Origin & History

foresee

O.E. forseon "have a premonition," from fore- "before" + seon "to see, see ahead." Related: Foresaw; foreseeable; foreseen.

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