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forestall

[fohr-stawl, fawr-]

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verb (used with object)

to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.

to act beforehand with or get ahead of; anticipate.

to buy up (goods) in advance in order to increase the price when resold.

to prevent sales at (a fair, market, etc.) by buying up or diverting goods.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English forstallen, verbal derivative of forstalle, Old English foresteall intervention (to defeat justice), waylaying. See fore-, stall²

Related forms

fore·stall·er, noun

fore·stall·ment, forestal·ment, noun

un·fore·stalled, adjective

Synonyms
1. preclude, obviate, intercept, obstruct. 2. prevent, avert.

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The police blocked roads to forestall planned marches to dramatize the issue.

Some want restrictions to cut population growth and forestall ecological catastrophe.

Some scientists are calling for more study of technological interventions to forestall catastrophic global warming.

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The police blocked roads to forestall planned marches to dramatize the issue.

Some want restrictions to cut population growth and forestall ecological catastrophe.

Some scientists are calling for more study of technological interventions to forestall catastrophic global warming.

Afterward, to forestall new corrosion, wipe the metal with a cloth dipped in paste wax.

To forestall an attempt to vote him out of office, he returned, calling an emergency council meeting at his home.

One way to forestall such a crash is to breed plants that are resistant to infection.

Murakami will forestall explaining what the bond is for as long as he can.

The government volunteered to face a confidence vote, in an impromptu parliamentary session, to forestall this threat.

No amount of intellectual engineering can forestall the inevitable.

To forestall another war, they should change their ways.

They hope to forestall that capital requirement by getting the customer to acquire it in small steps.

Secondly, a lower real interest rate doesn't necessarily mean that the real interest rate is low enough to forestall recession.

Hungary has now increased its benchmark interest rate by three percentage points to forestall a plunge in the forint.

Contrary to popular belief, young people did not flock to the nation's campuses to forestall unemployment.

To forestall the chaos, a low-key crackdown is under way.

Coating the area beneath any lumber with asphalt roofing cement will also forestall decay.

Lacey had lent his bulletproof reputation to a shabby maneuver to forestall the appointment of a.

Federal authorities moved quickly to forestall any challenges to the succession.

Policymakers are now scrambling to forestall a crunch.

To help forestall this ecological catastrophe a variety of sustainable-seafood certification schemes have emerged.

The fundamental hope is to somehow mitigate or forestall climate change.

So it should lay out a strategy for restoring the public finances to calm the markets and forestall a rise in bond yields.

Paan ingredients are said to hone memory, ease depression and forestall aging.

Nevertheless, our personal efforts to bolster cognitive enhancement cannot forestall all declines in our cognitive performance.

She drew the shades, though not so completely as absolutely to forestall legerdemain.

Yet measures to forestall further deterioration have been slow and inadequate.

Emerging market tightening should forestall big new increases in commodity.

It would involve enough revenue to forestall ruinous cuts in domestic programs.

Only braver, more aggressive reformist leadership will forestall that day and keep the current elite on top.

New units and programs were formed to forestall corruption.

They do not represent an enlightened desire to forestall the ravages of global warming.

The government has been trying to forestall inflation by cooling the economy with a variety of administrative controls.

It really seems to be overlooked that a little smart intervention can go a long way to forestall worse consequences.

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World English Dictionary

forestall (fɔːˈstɔːl)

—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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Word Origin & History

forestall

O.E. foresteall "an ambush, a waylaying," from fore "before" + steall "standing position" (see stall (1)). Modern sense of "to anticipate and delay" is from 1580s. Related: Forestalled; forestalling.

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