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The act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively
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forestalling
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively [syn: obviation , preclusion ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forestall \Fore*stall"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forestalled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Forestalling .] [OE. forstallen to stop, to obstruct; to stop (goods) on the way to the market by buying them beforehand, from forstal obstruction, AS. forsteal, foresteall, prop., ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who forestalls. vb. (present participle of forestall English)
Usage examples of forestalling.
How the justices who later dissented could have brought themselves to join this per curiam opinion defies understandingunless they, too, were playing a game, trying to prevent a result with which they disagreed by forestalling the possibility that the Court would have to overrule the state court.
They also appeased the general apprehension of a scarcity of bread, by orders to prevent the exportation of corn, and by enforcing the old laws against monopoly, forestalling, and regrating.
Grant, in command at Cairo, began his career as a general by cleverly forestalling the enemy at Paducah, where the Tennessee flows into the Ohio.
If the United States embarks on a military campaign against Iraq, Baghdad might very well decide to try to overthrow King Abdallah as a way of forestalling or derailing the campaign.
This manwhoever he ishas come very close to forestalling the mission to Rak Hagga with his accusation.
A British oath from the deck of the ship went out to meet a fine French explosion of profanity from the boat, both forestalling the splash of the tangled rope into the water under the bows of the ship, and a full ten yards out of the reach of the man who stood, boathook in hand, ready to catch it.
And," he said quickly, forestalling further protest, "it was a choice, at the time, of freezing with you or a few yards farther on.
At that point several came to collect empty plates, forestalling One-Eye from poormouthing about how he was so grossly overworked.
Bunt had evidently prepared some grave remonstration, but Costard, forestalling him, bleated out, "
Walid Pasha had arrived with the big guns, and Bass breathed a sigh of relief, for he had by that time about run out of convincing arguments to use in further forestalling a suicidal assault against Oentreib's walls and guns.