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foreseeable

[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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Kapioltas would take over the position of president for the foreseeable future, and the company was not seeking a replacement.

The league, he said, would not be seeking out new members for the foreseeable future.

In other words, the pain, austerity and market turmoil will go on for the foreseeable future.

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Kapioltas would take over the position of president for the foreseeable future, and the company was not seeking a replacement.

The league, he said, would not be seeking out new members for the foreseeable future.

In other words, the pain, austerity and market turmoil will go on for the foreseeable future.

Global climate change models predict that ocean temperatures will continue to rise in the foreseeable future.

My main point being is that there is nothing that replaces fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.

I'll be sticking with cables for the foreseeable future.

It seems to be, given the nature of the enemy, a war with no foreseeable end.

Unfortunately, such is not the case currently or in the foreseeable future.

Last time it was the referendum on voting reform, but another one of those is out of the question for the foreseeable future.

Ndjingala will have to rely on humans caretakers for the foreseeable future.

We are being sold a rain man story with oil is the only answer for the foreseeable time.

But the scientist believes that a process for producing graphene wafers is already in the foreseeable future.

The foreseeable future may already be here, it seems.

Under the current budget this level of spending will continue into the foreseeable future.

Attracting enough users to smooth such volatility seems unlikely in the foreseeable future.

Floating ice makes no difference to sea levels even if it does melt completely, which it will not in any foreseeable future.

It is foreseeable that crap will get onto a runway or that tires may explode for other reasons.

The agency principals told the president everybody was busy for the foreseeable future.

The current economic climate has made such hopes even more unrealizable for the foreseeable future.

Real rates will stay at today's low levels only if the global growth outlook is gloomy for the foreseeable future.

No spacecraft will be available in the foreseeable future.

Home prices could still rise someday, after all, and walking away will shatter your credit for the foreseeable future.

And nothing that medical science can do will budge that boundary in the foreseeable future.

Merit will not be happening at many publics for the foreseeable future.

But for the foreseeable future the country will depend on ships laden with foreign coal.

There are no large scale geothermal development possible in the foreseeable future.

It takes your vision past the cloudy and focuses it on the foreseeable clear.

But the operation faces continuing doubts about its ability to make a profit in the foreseeable future.

It seems likely that the two separate internets will have to live side by side for the foreseeable future.

Robotic probes are now, and for the foreseeable future, inadequate.

For the foreseeable future, that won't change, and for a venture capitalist with a five-year portfolio it's a rational decision.

She did not comment on the foreseeable consequences of the physicians' use of the drugs.

And so the household may stay put, essentially conceding that the male half will remain unemployed for the foreseeable future.

There is currently only one foreseeable viable technology to meet these needs.

Frequent increases in computing power once again promise to continue unabated for the foreseeable future.

Miller was nearly immobile from multiple sclerosis but was not likely to die in the foreseeable future.

The strong real was likely to last for the foreseeable future, he said, and industrialists needed to learn to live with.

But careful organic farming of grains and vegetables can and indeed will feed the world for the foreseeable future.

The judge ruled that driving under the influence has consequences that are foreseeable and therefore meet the standard for murder.

The projections suggest a flattening off and then a slight decline in the foreseeable future.

Bottom line, security is weak and will remain weak for the foreseeable future.

By contrast, population growth in industrialized countries has effectively ended for the foreseeable future, the report said.

At the moment, it carries a skeleton crew of three, and will do so for the foreseeable future.

Nuclear power can provide all the energy of the world needs into the foreseeable future.

School dances have been canceled for the foreseeable future.

There is no realistic prospect of a settlement in the foreseeable future.

The weight of any container now foreseeable is enormous compared to the amount of hydrogen it can hold.

Prosecutors are expected to include all foreseeable witnesses on such lists, out of fairness to the defense.

No government in the foreseeable future is likely to tackle co-determination and two-tier boards head on.

We haven't seen similar declines in this recovery, and there is no indication that things will change in the foreseeable future.

The need for them is only going to increase in the foreseeable future.

Hydrogen fuel cells and other ways of storing and distributing energy are no longer a distant dream but a foreseeable reality.

Emerging-market growth and infrastructure investment will spur global manufacturing demand for the foreseeable future.

Since the world is likely to need large numbers of peacekeepers for the foreseeable future, a further option is being explored:.

Western countries have been, are and will remain the intellectual force of the world for the foreseeable future.

And likely will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

Alien life will probably not even be detected in the foreseeable future, or contacted within thousands of years.

However, neither seems possible in the foreseeable future, because both engage a much different set of power on globe.

The result is an increasing gold price in the foreseeable future.

The sport's unique organisational structure is likely to keep them frustrated for the foreseeable future.

The apparently inexorable trend to higher prices was a foreseeable and foreseen consequence of interventionism.

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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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